CVE-2026-43387

MEDIUM

staging: rtl8723bs: properly validate the data in rtw_get_ie_ex()

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

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

References (8)

Core 8

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0012
EPSS Percentile 2.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (35)
linux/Kernel 4.12.0 - 5.10.253linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.203linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.167linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.18.19linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 6.19.9linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.130linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.78linux
Linux/Linux < 4.12
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 35969c3a208a07cb8642301df5869c34e2db7071
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 6d62fa548387e159a21ea95132c09bfc96d336ed
... and 25 more
Published May 08, 2026
Tracked Since May 08, 2026