CVE-2026-64441 PUBLISHED

staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB reads in rtw_get_sec_ie(), rtw_get_wapi_ie(), and rtw_get_wps_attr()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 19.07.2026 Published: 25.07.2026 Updated: 25.07.2026

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

staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB reads in rtw_get_sec_ie(), rtw_get_wapi_ie(), and rtw_get_wps_attr()

Three IE/attribute parsing functions have missing bounds checks.

rtw_get_sec_ie() and rtw_get_wapi_ie() iterate over a raw IE buffer without verifying that the header bytes (tag + length) are within the remaining buffer before reading them. Additionally, rtw_get_sec_ie() compares the 4-byte WPA OUI at cnt+2 without checking that at least 6 bytes remain, and rtw_get_wapi_ie() compares a 4-byte WAPI OUI at cnt+6 without checking that at least 10 bytes remain.

rtw_get_wps_attr() reads wps_ie[0] and wps_ie+2 unconditionally at entry, before verifying that wps_ielen is large enough to contain the 6-byte WPS IE header (element_id + length + 4-byte OUI). Inside the attribute loop, get_unaligned_be16() is called on attr_ptr and attr_ptr+2 without checking that 4 bytes remain in the buffer.

Add a cnt+2 bounds check before each loop body in rtw_get_sec_ie() and rtw_get_wapi_ie(), guard each multi-byte comparison with a minimum IE length requirement, add a wps_ielen < 6 early return in rtw_get_wps_attr(), and add a 4-byte bounds check in its inner loop.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to efa27d487abcdec79669a60a6d94d5d6eceb7c1d (excl.)
  • affected from 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to 2ea1ce30ead61589214240e8d33d96310fd613e5 (excl.)
  • affected from 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to b27ecba3196f6c14e3809595ebd69c0c2392512a (excl.)
  • affected from 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to 6ab1161e539fb7a1c8b35ff5a6ced4702e855b9c (excl.)
  • affected from 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to 4b51ee8a40fe47864197d73cc02b191de7a6b072 (excl.)
  • affected from 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to 729c4e72563bda0f1725db1db9ea08df06f41d9b (excl.)
  • affected from 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to 1463ca3ec6601cbb097d8d87dbf5dcf1cb86a344 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.12 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.12 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.212 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.178 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.145 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.97 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.40 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.4 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc3 to * (incl.)

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