CVE-2026-74648 PUBLISHED

staging: rtl8723bs: validate monitor transmit frame lengths

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 15.08.2026 Published: 22.08.2026 Updated: 22.08.2026

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

staging: rtl8723bs: validate monitor transmit frame lengths

rtw_cfg80211_monitor_if_xmit_entry() removes the radiotap header and then reads the 802.11 frame control field without checking that a base 802.11 header remains.

The data path also pulls the calculated 802.11, QoS and SNAP header span before confirming that the skb contains it. A truncated frame can therefore cause out-of-bounds reads or leave insufficient data for the Ethernet address writes.

Reject frames that do not contain the base 802.11 header and data frames that do not contain their complete calculated header span.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to f03398d835f5249c49546f0eb0d0df6792b95d5f (excl.)
  • affected from 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to a3ac6d849de5f7abe14761d741bbb843ac793454 (excl.)
  • affected from 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to 7edd3adb0c80d70b4237640275c559610f438476 (excl.)
  • affected from 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to c5e5d78743992e235b76d2ebe5a403d60315aa8a (excl.)
  • affected from 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to 7b0f62d2986a28e5e4188366bc2f4e2868b14790 (excl.)
  • affected from 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to 8b3e4ed9c35d3d3b64fcc23f4a1f22b37c1865b1 (excl.)
  • affected from 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to bd88f6289b7e483216a9c1df15a0460ef9b02cb6 (excl.)
  • affected from 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to 6829665d050983907b560173e49dcc6c11cb2730 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.12 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.12 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.265 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.216 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.183 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.152 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.104 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.45 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.9 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2 to * (incl.)

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