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CVE-2026-74651

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2026
Source publication
Source updated
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Source snapshot
cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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CNA source text (English)

staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in rtw_get_wpa_ie()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in rtw_get_wpa_ie() rtw_get_wpa_ie() reads bytes at fixed offsets into a vendor-specific information element without checking that the element is long enough, causing an out-of-bounds read for a short trailing IE. The function locates a vendor-specific IE (EID 221) with rtw_get_ie() and then compares a 4-byte OUI+type at pbuf + 2 and reads a 2-byte version word at pbuf + 6. Those accesses require the IE body to be at least 6 bytes, but rtw_get_ie() only guarantees that the element fits within the buffer; it does not enforce a minimum body length. A vendor-specific IE whose length byte is 0 to 5, placed at the end of the buffer, therefore makes these reads run past the end of the IE and past the end of the buffer itself. The buffer holds information elements taken from received management frames and from the IE blob passed to rtw_cfg80211_set_wpa_ie(), which is kmemdup'd to its exact length, so the read can run off the end of the allocation. The sibling helpers rtw_get_sec_ie(), rtw_get_wapi_ie() and rtw_get_wps_ie() in this file already reject too-short vendor-specific IEs before their OUI memcmp(); rtw_get_wpa_ie() was never brought in line with them, and needs a minimum of 6 rather than 4 bytes because of the version word. Add the missing length check.

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
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290baffectedgit4fc459c5cd8767ca4d9bf2f7becbd562639ba4d9UnavailableNone listed
554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290baffectedgitb45be82387bf759931acdd21ca7dfe740f16eb97UnavailableNone listed
554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290baffectedgitc9068f82a0906b29c905e8788edb62c3208c7c8aUnavailableNone listed
554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290baffectedgit0d19f0600fbb610c42f2a86f95c35706dc04691bUnavailableNone listed
554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290baffectedgit42c5a0d454aa5b54fec17162d9a1f8c30f8af45aUnavailableNone listed
554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290baffectedgite167a38a8a8f50f137721fef1a1fbba0f4588b5dUnavailableNone listed
554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290baffectedgit01ab275f8f3e497a13ebbe4ded44ec0623bccde3UnavailableNone listed
554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290baffectedgit1c3e23e78862493e8cf1adad02b10ffcb8b9921cUnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
4.12affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver4.12UnavailableNone listed
5.10.265unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.10.*None listed
5.15.216unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
6.1.183unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.1.*None listed
6.6.152unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.12.104unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.12.*None listed
6.18.45unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.18.*None listed
7.1.9unaffectedsemverUnavailable7.1.*None listed
7.2unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed