CVE-2026-64446
Medium
Elevated severity or exploit probability.
CVSS breakdown
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
| Attack Vector | L | Local |
| Attack Complexity | L | Low |
| Privileges Required | L | Low |
| User Interaction | N | None |
| Scope | U | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | H | High |
| Integrity | H | High |
| Availability | H | High |
Timeline
- 2026-07-25 — Published (NVD)
- 2026-09-03 — Last modified (NVD)
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
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/138cd190efd56ab36c9fdd8fef8749d06937f24b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2131621986c62c86109ce4d84cf73a73757eb8a6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46f66c16a95191d9aca07a72ae6b1252a244e26c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a752a616e756844388a1a45404db9fc29fec655
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d7812360abf3143afcbf5efe4ef242448fa1f28
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f20d7b0ee47c470734a69379b0fc6647c519603
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a94a643a80a84ceb8139061c3d6bf988d75e45a5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9c4bf133c3c47e23baf4f5403b98a953bf58606