Answer in brief
CVE-2026-90018 records a Unknown severity vulnerability in staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read / stack overflow in rtw_get_wps_attr(). The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | >=554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b <931640dfcb8cfa08f6cfb46229716d8072356420 || >=554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b <3a6457ebf39080b87c712657fdb38f34a24fc3ff || >=554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b <fd5e24ea8373347d0352f153a66e8647337d1b10 || >=554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b <a53d1ac9ce63db07943b2b2248111003851fb00f || >=554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b <ff61aa3289355dafa811550a1764691cd1f5d33b || >=554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b <34f51d196c43a42046d229de5e79025d5ca553ca || >=554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b <99aa998dec83ba180822f70e6d48a514fc81c20d | 931640dfcb8cfa08f6cfb46229716d8072356420, 3a6457ebf39080b87c712657fdb38f34a24fc3ff, fd5e24ea8373347d0352f153a66e8647337d1b10, a53d1ac9ce63db07943b2b2248111003851fb00f, ff61aa3289355dafa811550a1764691cd1f5d33b, 34f51d196c43a42046d229de5e79025d5ca553ca, 99aa998dec83ba180822f70e6d48a514fc81c20d |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | 4.12 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Sep 16, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Sep 16, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Sep 16, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read / stack overflow in rtw_get_wps_attr() rtw_get_wps_attr() walks WPS attributes inside a WPS IE taken from a wireless management frame. For each candidate attribute it only checks that the fixed 4-byte attribute header (2-byte ID + 2-byte length) fits inside the IE: if (attr_ptr + 4 > wps_ie + wps_ielen) break; u16 attr_id = get_unaligned_be16(attr_ptr); u16 attr_data_len = get_unaligned_be16(attr_ptr + 2); u16 attr_len = attr_data_len + 4; attr_data_len (and therefore attr_len) is read directly from the wire and is never checked against the remaining bytes in the IE before being used as the size of: memcpy(buf_attr, attr_ptr, attr_len); Since attr_len is fully attacker controlled (0 to 65535+4), this is both a heap OOB read of wps_ie, and, more seriously, a stack buffer overflow at several call sites where buf_attr is a single-byte stack variable, e.g. rtw_get_wps_attr_content()'s callers passing WPS_ATTR_SELECTED_REGISTRAR into a stack "u8 sr"/"u8 selected_registrar" (drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c, drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c). A crafted WPS IE in a beacon or probe response processed during scanning can therefore smash the stack of the parsing thread. rtw_get_wps_attr_content() itself has no independent length check and simply trusts the attr_len it gets back from rtw_get_wps_attr(), so fixing the bound here also fixes that caller. The "attr_ptr + 4 > wps_ie + wps_ielen" header check above was added by commit 1463ca3ec6601 ("staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB reads in rtw_get_sec_ie(), rtw_get_wapi_ie(), and rtw_get_wps_attr()"), which bounded the fixed header but never extended the check to cover the variable-length attribute data that follows it. Add that missing check before attr_len is used as a memcpy() length or accepted as a match.
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