CVE-2026-64446
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2026
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
staging: rtl8723bs: fix heap buffer overflow in rtw_cfg80211_set_wpa_ie()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: rtl8723bs: fix heap buffer overflow in rtw_cfg80211_set_wpa_ie() supplicant_ie is a 256-byte array in struct security_priv. The WPA and WPA2 IE copy paths use: memcpy(padapter->securitypriv.supplicant_ie, &pwpa[0], wpa_ielen + 2); where wpa_ielen is the raw IE length field (u8, 0-255). When a local user supplies a connect request via nl80211 with a crafted WPA IE of length 255, wpa_ielen + 2 equals 257, overflowing the 256-byte buffer by one byte into the adjacent last_mic_err_time field. rtw_parse_wpa_ie() does not prevent this: its length consistency check compares *(wpa_ie+1) against (u8)(wpa_ie_len-2), which is (u8)(255) == 255 when wpa_ie_len = 257, so the check passes silently. Add explicit bounds checks for both the WPA and WPA2 paths before the memcpy, rejecting any IE whose total size (wpa_ielen + 2) exceeds the supplicant_ie buffer.
Scoped product and version facts
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.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b | affected | git | a94a643a80a84ceb8139061c3d6bf988d75e45a5 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b | affected | git | 2131621986c62c86109ce4d84cf73a73757eb8a6 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b | affected | git | 6f20d7b0ee47c470734a69379b0fc6647c519603 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b | affected | git | 5d7812360abf3143afcbf5efe4ef242448fa1f28 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b | affected | git | 46f66c16a95191d9aca07a72ae6b1252a244e26c | Unavailable | None listed |
| 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b | affected | git | b9c4bf133c3c47e23baf4f5403b98a953bf58606 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b | affected | git | 138cd190efd56ab36c9fdd8fef8749d06937f24b | Unavailable | None listed |
| 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b | affected | git | 5a752a616e756844388a1a45404db9fc29fec655 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.12 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 4.12 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.10.261 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.10.* | None listed |
| 5.15.212 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 6.1.178 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.1.* | None listed |
| 6.6.145 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.12.96 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.12.* | None listed |
| 6.18.39 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.18.* | None listed |
| 7.1.4 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 7.1.* | None listed |
| 7.2 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |