staging: rtl8723bs: properly validate the data in rtw_get_ie_ex()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: rtl8723bs: properly validate the data in rtw_get_ie_ex() Just like in commit 154828bf9559 ("staging: rtl8723bs: fix out-of-bounds read in rtw_get_ie() parser"), we don't trust the data in the frame so we should check the length better before acting on it
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: rtl8723bs: properly validate the data in rtw_get_ie_ex() Just like in commit 154828bf9559 ("staging: rtl8723bs: fix out-of-bounds read in rtw_get_ie() parser"), we don't trust the data in the frame so we should check the length better before acting on it
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35969c3a208a07cb8642301df5869c34e2db7071
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d62fa548387e159a21ea95132c09bfc96d336ed
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/740bca8bbdb707c0e4bb11e3316deb2f04fc7ce1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8097a48c606a9306281ea7bd73bf2afc97553733
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/821f7d759fb2de33c5e5b0c4981181c4d0c3e9b1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a4cd4c37593cc8b8d28f9a6732b490a8032006a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac38856092b4c994f94343251b30520bdeb7f475
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0109b9d3e1e455429279d602f6276e34689750a
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/43xxx/CVE-2026-43387.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43387