# 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-2025-68362"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-24T10:32:50.492Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:51:44.272Z"
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-2025-68362"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68362.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68362"
title: "wifi: rtl818x: rtl8187: Fix potential buffer underflow in rtl8187_rx_cb()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: rtl818x: rtl8187: Fix potential buffer underflow in rtl8187_rx_cb()\n\nThe rtl8187_rx_cb() calculates the rx descriptor header address\nby subtracting its size from the skb tail pointer.\nHowever, it does not validate if the received packet\n(skb-\u003elen from urb-\u003eactual_length) is large enough to contain this\nheader.\n\nIf a truncated packet is received, this will lead to a buffer\nunderflow, reading memory before the start of the skb data area,\nand causing a kernel panic.\n\nAdd length checks for both rtl8187 and rtl8187b descriptor headers\nbefore attempting to access them, dropping the packet cleanly if the\ncheck fails."
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