CVE-2026-90017

staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in rtw_action_frame_parse()

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
Sep 16, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in rtw_action_frame_parse()

rtw_action_frame_parse() takes a frame_len parameter but never actually checks it before indexing into the frame body:

const u8 *frame_body = frame + sizeof(struct ieee80211_hdr_3addr); ... c = frame_body[0]; ... a = frame_body[1];

frame_body already points 24 bytes (sizeof(struct ieee80211_hdr_3addr)) into frame, so reading frame_body[0] and frame_body[1] requires frame_len >= 26. A management action frame shorter than that (e.g. exactly 24 bytes, the minimum a malicious peer can send) causes a 1-2 byte out-of-bounds read.

This is reachable from rtw_cfg80211_monitor_if_xmit_entry() and cfg80211_rtw_mgmt_tx() in ioctl_cfg80211.c, both of which pass attacker/user-influenced frame buffers and lengths straight through.

Add the missing length check before frame_body is dereferenced.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before 15081ff835b29e456da29303b32efc436df04695Affected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before 310aaa8058d19cc431aedac0f5bb814e84479393Affected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before 1410bce22351ba15d8e58287cbf09d55d7f21fc9Affected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before 0b7f64c7bb9664777168768c6b44affb07dcbf24Affected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before 136f9a3ab87ded8aaf081425cfb2059659dd9023Affected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before b041e3f35e0d262d42a711094ab594634d72744aAffected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before a54fd1a44862d263df9f8bc17fca3620be31addbAffected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to before ff917923f4fb9c83717ba135ee47d7e4c1567bb7Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.12Affected
  • before 4.12Not affected
  • 5.10.270 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.221 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.188 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.157 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.110 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.51 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.5 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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