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

CVE-2026-90017
HIGH 7.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.36 % · percentile 30 ()
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_action_frame_parse() rtw_action_frame_parse() takes a frame_len parameter but never actually checks it before indexing into the frame body: const u8 *frame_body = frame + sizeof(struct ieee80211_hdr_3addr); ... c = frame_body[0]; ... a = frame_body[1]; frame_body already points 24 bytes (sizeof(struct ieee80211_hdr_3addr)) into frame, so reading frame_body[0] and frame_body[1] requires frame_len >= 26. A management action frame shorter than that (e.g. exactly 24 bytes, the minimum a malicious peer can send) causes a 1-2 byte out-of-bounds read. This is reachable from rtw_cfg80211_monitor_if_xmit_entry() and cfg80211_rtw_mgmt_tx() in ioctl_cfg80211.c, both of which pass attacker/user-influenced frame buffers and lengths straight through. Add the missing length check before frame_body is dereferenced.

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 < 15081ff835b29e456da29303b32efc436df04695 ; affected 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b < 310aaa8058d19cc431aedac0f5bb814e84479393 ; affected 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b < 1410bce22351ba15d8e58287cbf09d55d7f21fc9 ; affected 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b < 0b7f64c7bb9664777168768c6b44affb07dcbf24 ; affected 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b < 136f9a3ab87ded8aaf081425cfb2059659dd9023 ; affected 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b < b041e3f35e0d262d42a711094ab594634d72744a
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.12 ; unaffected 0 < 4.12 ; unaffected 5.10.270 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.221 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.188 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.157 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

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CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD