staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in rtw_restruct_wmm_ie() (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-90016
HIGH 7.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.40 % · percentile 34 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in rtw_restruct_wmm_ie() rtw_restruct_wmm_ie() scans in_ie for a WMM IE with: while (i < in_len) { ... if (i + 5 < in_len && in_ie[i] == 0xDD && ...) { ... break; } i += (in_ie[i + 1] + 2); /* to the next IE element */ } When the "i + 5 < in_len" match check fails simply because i is within 5 bytes of the end of the buffer (i.e. no WMM IE was found near the tail of in_ie), execution falls through to "i += (in_ie[i + 1] + 2)", which reads in_ie[i + 1]. If i == in_len - 1 at that point, this is a 1-byte out-of-bounds read of an attacker-influenced IE buffer built from association/scan data. Commit a75281626fc8f ("staging: rtl8723bs: fix potential out-of-bounds read in rtw_restruct_wmm_ie") added the "i + 5 < in_len" guard to the match condition itself, but did not add an equivalent guard before the fallthrough advance, so the same class of OOB read remained reachable through the non-matching path. Add an explicit bounds check before advancing to the next IE.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b < 0c1f8bada613edbd810d010996d36159092576d5 ; affected 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b < 55034fa38bd8b302ceb32c15e8a98298f56f629b ; affected 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b < a8d76480d1abbbf617c2d6d9f60bf95ab45cff04 ; affected 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b < 716850842d2f103f915fe7c857ff1a0a036491b4 ; affected 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b < e63b72c5d7336981dfc05e5cb92becff29dfea00 ; affected 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b < 4420cc71841b50e31a7868ef7acb011c0e08d294
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.12 ; unaffected 0 < 4.12 ; unaffected 5.10.273 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.224 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.191 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.160 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

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