CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-64443
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-07-25
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/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 OOB read in update_beacon_info() IE loop
The IE parsing loop in update_beacon_info() advances by
(pIE->length + 2) each iteration but only guards on i < len.
When a malicious AP sends a Beacon whose last IE has only one byte
remaining in the frame (the element_id byte lands at len-1), the loop
reads pIE->length from one byte past the allocated receive buffer.
Additionally, even when the header bytes are in bounds, pIE->length
itself can extend the data window beyond len, passing a truncated IE
to the handler functions.
Add two guards at the top of the loop body:
1. Break if fewer than sizeof(*pIE) bytes remain (can't read header).
2. Break if the IE's declared data extends past len.
Also replace i += (pIE->length + 2) with i += sizeof(*pIE) + pIE->length
for consistency with the sizeof(*pIE) guards added above.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.12 < 5.15.212)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.178)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.145)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.96)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.39)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.1.4)
• linux linux kernel 7.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e8db4cff5b45c7c4edc8ae3f302027c3bb32b25 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69f174a0673b6b7a29b851adb60bc450cdc0ecc4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6dd5e8c3011ebabf417257d7f07901a7c4311539 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9193c34f75fd9e1ea8a590d7cced464c3380dc29 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5cc2f999927f69723ca53f1f2a3aa37dbeda907 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd953d52d587d42365e399b96c52dbdb13032070 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed51de4a86e173c3b0ef78e039c2e49e08b11f16 Patch