CVE-2026-64445

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-64445

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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

staging: rtl8723bs: fix WEP length underflow and OOB read in OnAuth()

OnAuth() has two bugs in the shared-key authentication path.

When the Privacy bit is set, rtw_wep_decrypt() is called without

verifying that the frame is long enough to contain a valid WEP IV and

ICV. Inside rtw_wep_decrypt(), length is computed as:

length = len - WLAN_HDR_A3_LEN - iv_len

and then passed as (length - 4) to crc32_le(). If len is less than

WLAN_HDR_A3_LEN + iv_len + icv_len (32 bytes), length - 4 is negative

and, after the implicit cast to size_t, causes crc32_le() to read far

beyond the frame buffer. Add a minimum length check before accessing

the IV field and calling the decryption path.

When processing a seq=3 response, rtw_get_ie() stores the Challenge

Text IE length in ie_len, but the subsequent memcmp() always reads 128

bytes regardless of ie_len. IEEE 802.11 mandates a challenge text of

exactly 128 bytes; reject any IE whose length field differs, matching

the check already applied to OnAuthClient(). (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References