CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-68362
- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-13
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: rtl818x: rtl8187: Fix potential buffer underflow in rtl8187_rx_cb()
The rtl8187_rx_cb() calculates the rx descriptor header address
by subtracting its size from the skb tail pointer.
However, it does not validate if the received packet
(skb->len from urb->actual_length) is large enough to contain this
header.
If a truncated packet is received, this will lead to a buffer
underflow, reading memory before the start of the skb data area,
and causing a kernel panic.
Add length checks for both rtl8187 and rtl8187b descriptor headers
before attempting to access them, dropping the packet cleanly if the
check fails.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/118e12bf3e4288cf845cd3759bd9d4c99f91aab5 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4758770a673c60d8f615809304d72e1432fa6355 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ebf0fe7eaef9f6173a4c6ea77c5353e21645d15 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/638d4148e166d114a4cd7becaae992ce1a815ed8 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a96bd0d94305fd04a6ac64446ec113bae289384 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b647d2574e4583c2e3b0ab35568f60c88e910840 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc153401fb26c1640a2b279c47b65e1c416af276 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2f3ea15e804607e0a4a34a2f6c331c8750b68bc git.kernel.org