CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-64446

7.8 HIGH Published 2026-07-25 Modified 2026-09-03 Official page ↗
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