# 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-2026-64441"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:51:13.834Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:38:29.338Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-64441"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64441.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64441"
title: "staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB reads in rtw_get_sec_ie(), rtw_get_wapi_ie(), and rtw_get_wps_attr()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nstaging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB reads in rtw_get_sec_ie(), rtw_get_wapi_ie(), and rtw_get_wps_attr()\n\nThree IE/attribute parsing functions have missing bounds checks.\n\nrtw_get_sec_ie() and rtw_get_wapi_ie() iterate over a raw IE buffer\nwithout verifying that the header bytes (tag + length) are within the\nremaining buffer before reading them.  Additionally, rtw_get_sec_ie()\ncompares the 4-byte WPA OUI at cnt+2 without checking that at least\n6 bytes remain, and rtw_get_wapi_ie() compares a 4-byte WAPI OUI at\ncnt+6 without checking that at least 10 bytes remain.\n\nrtw_get_wps_attr() reads wps_ie[0] and wps_ie+2 unconditionally at\nentry, before verifying that wps_ielen is large enough to contain\nthe 6-byte WPS IE header (element_id + length + 4-byte OUI).  Inside\nthe attribute loop, get_unaligned_be16() is called on attr_ptr and\nattr_ptr+2 without checking that 4 bytes remain in the buffer.\n\nAdd a cnt+2 bounds check before each loop body in rtw_get_sec_ie()\nand rtw_get_wapi_ie(), guard each multi-byte comparison with a minimum\nIE length requirement, add a wps_ielen \u003c 6 early return in\nrtw_get_wps_attr(), and add a 4-byte bounds check in its inner loop."
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