# 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-2026-74650"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:26.333Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-27T12:39:54.006Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-74650"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74650.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74650"
title: "staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in WMM_param_handler()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nstaging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in WMM_param_handler()\n\nWMM_param_handler() copies a fixed-size WMM parameter element out of a\nreceived information element without checking that the element is long\nenough, causing an out-of-bounds read for a short WMM IE.\n\nThe handler reads sizeof(struct WMM_para_element) (18) bytes at\npIE-\u003edata + 6, so it requires pIE-\u003elength to be at least 24\n(WLAN_WMM_LEN), but it never validates the length. Two of its three\ncallers reach it after matching only the WMM OUI: OnAssocRsp() in\nrtw_mlme_ext.c matches a 6-byte OUI, and join_cmd_hdl() matches a\n4-byte OUI, before calling the handler. A vendor-specific IE carrying\nthe WMM OUI but a length between 6 and 23, placed in an association\nresponse or in the IE blob handed to join_cmd_hdl(), passes the OUI\ncheck and then makes the memcmp() and memcpy() at pIE-\u003edata + 6 read\npast the end of the element. OnAssocRsp() parses a frame received from\nthe AP, so this is reachable from a remote peer.\n\nThe remaining caller in rtw_wlan_util.c already guards the handler with\n\"pIE-\u003elength == WLAN_WMM_LEN\". Move the equivalent check into the\nhandler itself so every caller is covered; the sibling IE handlers in\nthe same parsing loop (HT_caps_handler(), HT_info_handler(),\nERP_IE_handler()) likewise bound their accesses by pIE-\u003elength."
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