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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-64446

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 7/25/2026 6:17:29 AM

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Added 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.
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/138cd190efd56ab36c9fdd8fef8749d06937f24b
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2131621986c62c86109ce4d84cf73a73757eb8a6
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46f66c16a95191d9aca07a72ae6b1252a244e26c
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a752a616e756844388a1a45404db9fc29fec655
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d7812360abf3143afcbf5efe4ef242448fa1f28
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f20d7b0ee47c470734a69379b0fc6647c519603
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a94a643a80a84ceb8139061c3d6bf988d75e45a5
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9c4bf133c3c47e23baf4f5403b98a953bf58606
Added Affected

                  
                
              
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