Riskcovery

CVE-2026-53178

staging: rtl8723bs: rtw_mlme: add bounds checks before ie_length subtraction

State
Published
Severity
8.1 High
Published
Jun 25, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Jun 9, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

staging: rtl8723bs: rtw_mlme: add bounds checks before ie_length subtraction

Add guards to ensure ie_length is large enough before subtracting fixed IE offsets to prevent unsigned integer underflow.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • d3fcee1b78a533c256077f1300dd236801397cf7 to before 18143799ad51a32b1351e4e1591b6285a0a9d7ddAffected
  • d3fcee1b78a533c256077f1300dd236801397cf7 to before 8863ac3a4fedf86b0ef5b8ecc37fbaa52f2a8160Affected
  • d3fcee1b78a533c256077f1300dd236801397cf7 to before 637e0ea73f690028796ee2fc72a2ac4ec32968c6Affected
  • d3fcee1b78a533c256077f1300dd236801397cf7 to before 542d65a6dbd9733baab96313c9fe76a76e93f484Affected
  • d3fcee1b78a533c256077f1300dd236801397cf7 to before 88e994c57a79f62d5338231d8d37ee8dd98baffeAffected
  • 1b786350924cc0fa30d4434470b32f24e8ddd107Affected
  • 5.10.273 to before 5.11Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.15Affected
  • before 5.15Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.114 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.52 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.13 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

References

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