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CVE-2025-68256

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: rtl8723bs: fix out-of-bounds read in rtw_get_ie() parser The Information Element (IE) parser rtw_get_ie() trusted the length byte of each IE without validating that the IE body (len bytes after the 2-byte header) fits inside the remaining frame buffer. A malformed frame can advertise an IE length larger than the available data, causing the parser to increment its pointer beyond the buffer end. This results in out-of-b
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:6be7430f013cbd8ecac504439fb445e6c14e7ef1583a3abe952b17d74b432db6
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
1

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

affected · 2 assertions

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  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:62c9ebb65dfc5aaa36f9ee587bd3624bf3259593ca69770c2b6a239b3922a0b9 · sha256:7efeed836bf91658… · /containers/cna/affected/1

{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Linux","programFiles":["drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","vendor":"Linux","versions":[{"lessThan":"9829c6e1b2e4180fd18315252ad6faeab6128076","status":"affected","version":"554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b","versionType":"git"},{"lessThan":"b977eb31802817f4a37da95bf16bfdaa1eeb5fc2","status":"affected","version":"554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b","versionType":"git"},{"lessThan":"30c558447e90935f0de61be181bbcedf75952e00","status":"affected","version":…

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:62c9ebb65dfc5aaa36f9ee587bd3624bf3259593ca69770c2b6a239b3922a0b9 · sha256:7efeed836bf91658… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Affected products and versions

2 source assertions
{"defaultStatus":"affected","product":"Linux","programFiles":["drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","vendor":"Linux","versions":[{"status":"affected","version":"4.12"},{"lessThan":"4.12","status":"unaffected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"},{"lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*","status":"unaffected","version":"5.15.203","versionType":"semver"},{"lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*","status":"unaffected","version":"6.1.160","versionType":"semver"},{"lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*","status":"unaffected","version":"6.6.120","versionTy…
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:62c9ebb65dfc5aaa36f9ee587bd3624bf3259593ca69770c2b6a239b3922a0b9 · sha256:7efeed836bf91658… · /containers/cna/affected/1
{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Linux","programFiles":["drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","vendor":"Linux","versions":[{"lessThan":"9829c6e1b2e4180fd18315252ad6faeab6128076","status":"affected","version":"554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b","versionType":"git"},{"lessThan":"b977eb31802817f4a37da95bf16bfdaa1eeb5fc2","status":"affected","version":"554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b","versionType":"git"},{"lessThan":"30c558447e90935f0de61be181bbcedf75952e00","status":"affected","version":…
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:62c9ebb65dfc5aaa36f9ee587bd3624bf3259593ca69770c2b6a239b3922a0b9 · sha256:7efeed836bf91658… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"baseScore":8.8,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:62c9ebb65dfc5aaa36f9ee587bd3624bf3259593ca69770c2b6a239b3922a0b9 · sha256:7efeed836bf91658… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

Source references

7 source assertions
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/154828bf9559b9c8421fc2f0d7f7f76b3683aaed"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:62c9ebb65dfc5aaa36f9ee587bd3624bf3259593ca69770c2b6a239b3922a0b9 · sha256:7efeed836bf91658… · /containers/cna/references/6
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30c558447e90935f0de61be181bbcedf75952e00"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:62c9ebb65dfc5aaa36f9ee587bd3624bf3259593ca69770c2b6a239b3922a0b9 · sha256:7efeed836bf91658… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9829c6e1b2e4180fd18315252ad6faeab6128076"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:62c9ebb65dfc5aaa36f9ee587bd3624bf3259593ca69770c2b6a239b3922a0b9 · sha256:7efeed836bf91658… · /containers/cna/references/0
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a54e2b2db1b7de2e008b4f62eec35aaefcc663c5"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:62c9ebb65dfc5aaa36f9ee587bd3624bf3259593ca69770c2b6a239b3922a0b9 · sha256:7efeed836bf91658… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b977eb31802817f4a37da95bf16bfdaa1eeb5fc2"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:62c9ebb65dfc5aaa36f9ee587bd3624bf3259593ca69770c2b6a239b3922a0b9 · sha256:7efeed836bf91658… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0d93d69e1472ba75b78898979b90a98ba2a2501"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:62c9ebb65dfc5aaa36f9ee587bd3624bf3259593ca69770c2b6a239b3922a0b9 · sha256:7efeed836bf91658… · /containers/cna/references/5
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df191dd9f4c7249d98ada55634fa8ac19089b8cb"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:62c9ebb65dfc5aaa36f9ee587bd3624bf3259593ca69770c2b6a239b3922a0b9 · sha256:7efeed836bf91658… · /containers/cna/references/4

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

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