CVE-2025-71234 PUBLISHED

wifi: rtl8xxxu: fix slab-out-of-bounds in rtl8xxxu_sta_add

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 18.02.2026 Published: 18.02.2026 Updated: 18.02.2026

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

wifi: rtl8xxxu: fix slab-out-of-bounds in rtl8xxxu_sta_add

The driver does not set hw->sta_data_size, which causes mac80211 to allocate insufficient space for driver private station data in __sta_info_alloc(). When rtl8xxxu_sta_add() accesses members of struct rtl8xxxu_sta_info through sta->drv_priv, this results in a slab-out-of-bounds write.

KASAN report on RISC-V (VisionFive 2) with RTL8192EU adapter:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in rtl8xxxu_sta_add+0x31c/0x346 Write of size 8 at addr ffffffd6d3e9ae88 by task kworker/u16:0/12

Set hw->sta_data_size to sizeof(struct rtl8xxxu_sta_info) during probe, similar to how hw->vif_data_size is configured. This ensures mac80211 allocates sufficient space for the driver's per-station private data.

Tested on StarFive VisionFive 2 v1.2A board.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 5d810ba377eddee95d30766d360a14efbb3d1872 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 116f7bd8160c6b37d1c6939385abf90f6f6ed2f5 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 9a0f3fa6ecd0c9c32dbc367a57482bbf7c7d25bf (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • unaffected from 6.12.72 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.11 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.1 to 6.19.* (incl.)

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