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Permalink CVE-2026-90017
7.1 HIGH
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
  • Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent (A)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): None (N)
  • Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
  • Confidentiality (C): Low (L)
  • Integrity (I): None (N)
  • Availability (A): High (H)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Adjacent (A)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
  • Modified Confidentiality (MC): Low (L)
  • Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
  • Modified Integrity (MI): None (N)
  • Modified Availability (MA): High (H)
created 1 week, 4 days ago Activity log
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staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in rtw_action_frame_parse()

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.

Affected products

Linux
  • =<7.2.*
  • <ff917923f4fb9c83717ba135ee47d7e4c1567bb7
  • <310aaa8058d19cc431aedac0f5bb814e84479393
  • <136f9a3ab87ded8aaf081425cfb2059659dd9023
  • =<6.12.*
  • =<5.15.*
  • <15081ff835b29e456da29303b32efc436df04695
  • =<6.18.*
  • ==4.12
  • <0b7f64c7bb9664777168768c6b44affb07dcbf24
  • <b041e3f35e0d262d42a711094ab594634d72744a
  • =<*
  • <4.12
  • =<6.1.*
  • =<6.6.*
  • <a54fd1a44862d263df9f8bc17fca3620be31addb
  • <1410bce22351ba15d8e58287cbf09d55d7f21fc9
  • =<5.10.*