CVE-2026-64445

staging: rtl8723bs: fix WEP length underflow and OOB read in OnAuth()

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Jul 25, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Jul 19, 2026

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Description

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

staging: rtl8723bs: fix WEP length underflow and OOB read in OnAuth()

OnAuth() has two bugs in the shared-key authentication path.

When the Privacy bit is set, rtw_wep_decrypt() is called without verifying that the frame is long enough to contain a valid WEP IV and ICV. Inside rtw_wep_decrypt(), length is computed as:

length = len - WLAN_HDR_A3_LEN - iv_len

and then passed as (length - 4) to crc32_le(). If len is less than WLAN_HDR_A3_LEN + iv_len + icv_len (32 bytes), length - 4 is negative and, after the implicit cast to size_t, causes crc32_le() to read far beyond the frame buffer. Add a minimum length check before accessing the IV field and calling the decryption path.

When processing a seq=3 response, rtw_get_ie() stores the Challenge Text IE length in ie_len, but the subsequent memcmp() always reads 128 bytes regardless of ie_len. IEEE 802.11 mandates a challenge text of exactly 128 bytes; reject any IE whose length field differs, matching the check already applied to OnAuthClient().

Scores

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

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before 665e1ecb68b4e8419604e70a33f02d1c8b0222c6Affected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before 87cccc2a767f17dcab71e3b9fe5ae29b5516c5ceAffected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before c9000c93078e5c0a5a651b077c0ec92a4bc7d580Affected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before 1f6c9d255bdda41216b6e34c96aa2b1abee0bb84Affected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before 3e44a7665f3abd320a80d9c64ee4a93317041b8bAffected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before 64ec4192d9c10e96922245d4a6747304cc76b19dAffected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before d90b9f39f375c9826ef145605dfe97765d0ecb91Affected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before a1fc19d61f661d47204f095b593de507884849f7Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.12Affected
  • before 4.12Not affected
  • 5.10.261 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.212 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.178 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.145 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.96 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.39 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.4 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

References

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