# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64445"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:51:16.670Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:38:29.983Z"
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-2026-64445"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64445.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64445"
title: "staging: rtl8723bs: fix WEP length underflow and OOB read in OnAuth()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nstaging: rtl8723bs: fix WEP length underflow and OOB read in OnAuth()\n\nOnAuth() has two bugs in the shared-key authentication path.\n\nWhen the Privacy bit is set, rtw_wep_decrypt() is called without\nverifying that the frame is long enough to contain a valid WEP IV and\nICV.  Inside rtw_wep_decrypt(), length is computed as:\n\n    length = len - WLAN_HDR_A3_LEN - iv_len\n\nand then passed as (length - 4) to crc32_le().  If len is less than\nWLAN_HDR_A3_LEN + iv_len + icv_len (32 bytes), length - 4 is negative\nand, after the implicit cast to size_t, causes crc32_le() to read far\nbeyond the frame buffer.  Add a minimum length check before accessing\nthe IV field and calling the decryption path.\n\nWhen processing a seq=3 response, rtw_get_ie() stores the Challenge\nText IE length in ie_len, but the subsequent memcmp() always reads 128\nbytes regardless of ie_len.  IEEE 802.11 mandates a challenge text of\nexactly 128 bytes; reject any IE whose length field differs, matching\nthe check already applied to OnAuthClient()."
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