CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-64446

Low risk· EPSS 10%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.20%

10th percentile - higher than 10% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the rtl8723bs driver in the Linux kernel, a heap buffer overflow occurs in rtw_cfg80211_set_wpa_ie() when a local user sends a crafted WPA IE of length 255, causing memcpy to copy 257 bytes into a 256-byte buffer, overflowing into the adjacent last_mic_err_time field.

Risk Assessment

Heap overflow can lead to data corruption, system crashes, or potential arbitrary code execution by a local attacker.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that adds explicit bounds checks before memcpy for both WPA and WPA2 paths.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

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