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CVE-2026-53178

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: rtl8723bs: rtw_mlme: add bounds checks before ie_length subtraction Add guards to ensure ie_length is large enough before subtracting fixed IE offsets to prevent unsigned integer underflow.
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:0708015fbc4e20a4c14a130b2dc3f570d38e5a37227af6b44a7479ff921e3223
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:v2:937d982d5295d0b8d9bdf9824682df3b78e2df0d27bf53cc37740de39ad560fb · sha256:c08749f363ac2bc5… · /containers/cna/affected/1

{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Linux","programFiles":["drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","vendor":"Linux","versions":[{"lessThan":"542d65a6dbd9733baab96313c9fe76a76e93f484","status":"affected","version":"d3fcee1b78a533c256077f1300dd236801397cf7","versionType":"git"},{"lessThan":"88e994c57a79f62d5338231d8d37ee8dd98baffe","status":"affected","version":"d3fcee1b78a533c256077f1300dd236801397cf7","versionType":"git"}]}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:937d982d5295d0b8d9bdf9824682df3b78e2df0d27bf53cc37740de39ad560fb · sha256:c08749f363ac2bc5… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Affected products and versions

2 source assertions
{"defaultStatus":"affected","product":"Linux","programFiles":["drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","vendor":"Linux","versions":[{"status":"affected","version":"5.15"},{"lessThan":"5.15","status":"unaffected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"},{"lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*","status":"unaffected","version":"7.0.13","versionType":"semver"},{"lessThanOrEqual":"*","status":"unaffected","version":"7.1","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:937d982d5295d0b8d9bdf9824682df3b78e2df0d27bf53cc37740de39ad560fb · sha256:c08749f363ac2bc5… · /containers/cna/affected/1
{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Linux","programFiles":["drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","vendor":"Linux","versions":[{"lessThan":"542d65a6dbd9733baab96313c9fe76a76e93f484","status":"affected","version":"d3fcee1b78a533c256077f1300dd236801397cf7","versionType":"git"},{"lessThan":"88e994c57a79f62d5338231d8d37ee8dd98baffe","status":"affected","version":"d3fcee1b78a533c256077f1300dd236801397cf7","versionType":"git"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:937d982d5295d0b8d9bdf9824682df3b78e2df0d27bf53cc37740de39ad560fb · sha256:c08749f363ac2bc5… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"baseScore":8.1,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:937d982d5295d0b8d9bdf9824682df3b78e2df0d27bf53cc37740de39ad560fb · sha256:c08749f363ac2bc5… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

Source references

2 source assertions
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/542d65a6dbd9733baab96313c9fe76a76e93f484"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:937d982d5295d0b8d9bdf9824682df3b78e2df0d27bf53cc37740de39ad560fb · sha256:c08749f363ac2bc5… · /containers/cna/references/0
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/88e994c57a79f62d5338231d8d37ee8dd98baffe"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:937d982d5295d0b8d9bdf9824682df3b78e2df0d27bf53cc37740de39ad560fb · sha256:c08749f363ac2bc5… · /containers/cna/references/1

Attribution and limitations

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

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