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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-74651

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/22/2026 12:16:38 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

                  
                
              
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in rtw_get_wpa_ie()

rtw_get_wpa_ie() reads bytes at fixed offsets into a vendor-specific
information element without checking that the element is long enough,
causing an out-of-bounds read for a short trailing IE.

The function locates a vendor-specific IE (EID 221) with rtw_get_ie()
and then compares a 4-byte OUI+type at pbuf + 2 and reads a 2-byte
version word at pbuf + 6. Those accesses require the IE body to be at
least 6 bytes, but rtw_get_ie() only guarantees that the element fits
within the buffer; it does not enforce a minimum body length. A
vendor-specific IE whose length byte is 0 to 5, placed at the end of
the buffer, therefore makes these reads run past the end of the IE and
past the end of the buffer itself.

The buffer holds information elements taken from received management
frames and from the IE blob passed to rtw_cfg80211_set_wpa_ie(), which
is kmemdup'd to its exact length, so the read can run off the end of
the allocation.

The sibling helpers rtw_get_sec_ie(), rtw_get_wapi_ie() and
rtw_get_wps_ie() in this file already reject too-short vendor-specific
IEs before their OUI memcmp(); rtw_get_wpa_ie() was never brought in
line with them, and needs a minimum of 6 rather than 4 bytes because
of the version word. Add the missing length check.
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01ab275f8f3e497a13ebbe4ded44ec0623bccde3
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d19f0600fbb610c42f2a86f95c35706dc04691b
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c3e23e78862493e8cf1adad02b10ffcb8b9921c
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42c5a0d454aa5b54fec17162d9a1f8c30f8af45a
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fc459c5cd8767ca4d9bf2f7becbd562639ba4d9
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b45be82387bf759931acdd21ca7dfe740f16eb97
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9068f82a0906b29c905e8788edb62c3208c7c8a
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e167a38a8a8f50f137721fef1a1fbba0f4588b5d
Added Affected

                  
                
              
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