staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in rtw_restruct_wmm_ie()
CVSS score
7.1
EPSS probability
%0.4
Risk score
0.0
Published
1 mo ago
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in rtw_restruct_wmm_ie() rtw_restruct_wmm_ie() scans in_ie for a WMM IE with: while (i < in_len) { ... if (i + 5 < in_len && in_ie[i] == 0xDD && ...) { ... break; } i += (in_ie[i + 1] + 2); /* to the next IE element */ } When the "i + 5 < in_len" match check fails simply because i is within 5 bytes of the end of the buffer (i.e. no WMM IE was found near the tail of in_ie), execution falls through to "i += (in_ie[i + 1] + 2)", which reads in_ie[i + 1]. If i == in_len - 1 at that point, this is a 1-byte out-of-bounds read of an attacker-influenced IE buffer built from association/scan data. Commit a75281626fc8f ("staging: rtl8723bs: fix potential out-of-bounds read in rtw_restruct_wmm_ie") added the "i + 5 < in_len" guard to the match condition itself, but did not add an equivalent guard before the fallthrough advance, so the same class of OOB read remained reachable through the non-matching path. Add an explicit bounds check before advancing to the next IE.
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| SCORE | VERSION | SEVERITY | VECTOR | SOURCE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.1 | CVSS V31 | HIGH | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H | NVD |
| 7.1 | CVSS V3_1 | HIGH | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H | CVE CNA |
| 7.1 | CVSS 3.x | — | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H/E:U | Microsoft MSRC |
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