CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-68254

HighCVSS 7.1
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.25%

17th percentile - higher than 17% of all known CVEs

Summary

An out-of-bounds read was found in the Extended Supported Rates (ESR) IE parsing in the OnBeacon function in the staging rtl8723bs driver in the Linux kernel. Lack of bounds checking can cause kernel panics on malicious beacon frames.

Risk Assessment

Out-of-bounds reads can cause kernel panics, leading to system downtime and potential DoS attacks.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that adds bounds checking for ESR IE in OnBeacon.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: rtl8723bs: fix out-of-bounds read in OnBeacon ESR IE parsing The Extended Supported Rates (ESR) IE handling in OnBeacon accessed *(p + 1 + ielen) and *(p + 2 + ielen) without verifying that these offsets lie within the received frame buffer. A malformed beacon with an ESR IE positioned at the end of the buffer could cause an out-of-bounds read, potentially triggering a kernel panic. Add a boundary check to ensure that the ESR IE body and the subsequent bytes are within the limits of the frame before attempting to access them. This prevents OOB reads caused by malformed beacon frames.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS