CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-53179
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-06-25
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
staging: rtl8723bs: fix buffer over-read in rtw_update_protection
rtw_update_protection() is called with a pointer offset into the
ies buffer but the full ie_length is passed, causing a potential
buffer over-read.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15 < 6.18.36)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.13)
• linux linux kernel 7.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/303f65af819f6d5aa302e82bce72b57a8575faea Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/514ab98364595007d4557ecc85d7e5f012c504d3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/735dabdf21561a24d8bcae456c9c32f7f961a029 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c35ce55b12bb8fcd365daeb516e9782048119b36 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d95edbbf7830d77ad68d437c384055eac8cd9892 git.kernel.org