CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-64446
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-07-25
- Last modified
- 2026-09-03
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
staging: rtl8723bs: fix heap buffer overflow in rtw_cfg80211_set_wpa_ie()
supplicant_ie is a 256-byte array in struct security_priv. The WPA and
WPA2 IE copy paths use:
memcpy(padapter->securitypriv.supplicant_ie, &pwpa[0], wpa_ielen + 2);
where wpa_ielen is the raw IE length field (u8, 0-255). When a local user
supplies a connect request via nl80211 with a crafted WPA IE of length 255,
wpa_ielen + 2 equals 257, overflowing the 256-byte buffer by one byte into
the adjacent last_mic_err_time field.
rtw_parse_wpa_ie() does not prevent this: its length consistency check
compares *(wpa_ie+1) against (u8)(wpa_ie_len-2), which is (u8)(255) == 255
when wpa_ie_len = 257, so the check passes silently.
Add explicit bounds checks for both the WPA and WPA2 paths before the
memcpy, rejecting any IE whose total size (wpa_ielen + 2) exceeds the
supplicant_ie buffer.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.12 < 5.10.261)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 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-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/138cd190efd56ab36c9fdd8fef8749d06937f24b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2131621986c62c86109ce4d84cf73a73757eb8a6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46f66c16a95191d9aca07a72ae6b1252a244e26c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a752a616e756844388a1a45404db9fc29fec655 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d7812360abf3143afcbf5efe4ef242448fa1f28 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f20d7b0ee47c470734a69379b0fc6647c519603 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a94a643a80a84ceb8139061c3d6bf988d75e45a5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9c4bf133c3c47e23baf4f5403b98a953bf58606 Patch