CVE-2026-64445 PUBLISHED

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

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 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:

<pre>length = len - WLAN_HDR_A3_LEN - iv_len </pre>

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().

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to 665e1ecb68b4e8419604e70a33f02d1c8b0222c6 (excl.)
  • affected from 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to 87cccc2a767f17dcab71e3b9fe5ae29b5516c5ce (excl.)
  • affected from 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to c9000c93078e5c0a5a651b077c0ec92a4bc7d580 (excl.)
  • affected from 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to 1f6c9d255bdda41216b6e34c96aa2b1abee0bb84 (excl.)
  • affected from 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to 3e44a7665f3abd320a80d9c64ee4a93317041b8b (excl.)
  • affected from 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to 64ec4192d9c10e96922245d4a6747304cc76b19d (excl.)
  • affected from 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to d90b9f39f375c9826ef145605dfe97765d0ecb91 (excl.)
  • affected from 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to a1fc19d61f661d47204f095b593de507884849f7 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.12 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.12 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.261 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • 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 6.12.96 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.39 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.4 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc3 to * (incl.)

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