CVE-2026-64446

staging: rtl8723bs: fix heap buffer overflow in rtw_cfg80211_set_wpa_ie()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jul 25, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Jul 19, 2026

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Description

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

staging: rtl8723bs: fix heap buffer overflow in rtw_cfg80211_set_wpa_ie()

supplicant_ie is a 256-byte array in struct security_priv. The WPA and WPA2 IE copy paths use:

memcpy(padapter->securitypriv.supplicant_ie, &pwpa[0], wpa_ielen + 2);

where wpa_ielen is the raw IE length field (u8, 0-255). When a local user supplies a connect request via nl80211 with a crafted WPA IE of length 255, wpa_ielen + 2 equals 257, overflowing the 256-byte buffer by one byte into the adjacent last_mic_err_time field.

rtw_parse_wpa_ie() does not prevent this: its length consistency check compares *(wpa_ie+1) against (u8)(wpa_ie_len-2), which is (u8)(255) == 255 when wpa_ie_len = 257, so the check passes silently.

Add explicit bounds checks for both the WPA and WPA2 paths before the memcpy, rejecting any IE whose total size (wpa_ielen + 2) exceeds the supplicant_ie buffer.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before a94a643a80a84ceb8139061c3d6bf988d75e45a5Affected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before 2131621986c62c86109ce4d84cf73a73757eb8a6Affected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before 6f20d7b0ee47c470734a69379b0fc6647c519603Affected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before 5d7812360abf3143afcbf5efe4ef242448fa1f28Affected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before 46f66c16a95191d9aca07a72ae6b1252a244e26cAffected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before b9c4bf133c3c47e23baf4f5403b98a953bf58606Affected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before 138cd190efd56ab36c9fdd8fef8749d06937f24bAffected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before 5a752a616e756844388a1a45404db9fc29fec655Affected
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

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