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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-71234"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-02-18T14:53:18.893Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:25:24.435Z"
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-2025-71234"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-71234.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-71234"
title: "wifi: rtl8xxxu: fix slab-out-of-bounds in rtl8xxxu_sta_add"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: rtl8xxxu: fix slab-out-of-bounds in rtl8xxxu_sta_add\n\nThe driver does not set hw-\u003esta_data_size, which causes mac80211 to\nallocate insufficient space for driver private station data in\n__sta_info_alloc(). When rtl8xxxu_sta_add() accesses members of\nstruct rtl8xxxu_sta_info through sta-\u003edrv_priv, this results in a\nslab-out-of-bounds write.\n\nKASAN report on RISC-V (VisionFive 2) with RTL8192EU adapter:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in rtl8xxxu_sta_add+0x31c/0x346\n  Write of size 8 at addr ffffffd6d3e9ae88 by task kworker/u16:0/12\n\nSet hw-\u003esta_data_size to sizeof(struct rtl8xxxu_sta_info) during\nprobe, similar to how hw-\u003evif_data_size is configured. This ensures\nmac80211 allocates sufficient space for the driver's per-station\nprivate data.\n\nTested on StarFive VisionFive 2 v1.2A board."
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