# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-68255"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-16T14:44:58.031Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:10:30.152Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68255"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68255.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68255"
title: "staging: rtl8723bs: fix stack buffer overflow in OnAssocReq IE parsing"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nstaging: rtl8723bs: fix stack buffer overflow in OnAssocReq IE parsing\n\nThe Supported Rates IE length from an incoming Association Request frame\nwas used directly as the memcpy() length when copying into a fixed-size\n16-byte stack buffer (supportRate). A malicious station can advertise an\nIE length larger than 16 bytes, causing a stack buffer overflow.\n\nClamp ie_len to the buffer size before copying the Supported Rates IE,\nand correct the bounds check when merging Extended Supported Rates to\nprevent a second potential overflow.\n\nThis prevents kernel stack corruption triggered by malformed association\nrequests."
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