CVE-2026-74651

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Those accesses require the IE body to be at\nleast 6 bytes, but rtw_get_ie() only guarantees that the element fits\nwithin the buffer; it does not enforce a minimum body length. A\nvendor-specific IE whose length byte is 0 to 5, placed at the end of\nthe buffer, therefore makes these reads run past the end of the IE and\npast the end of the buffer itself.\n\nThe buffer holds information elements taken from received management\nframes and from the IE blob passed to rtw_cfg80211_set_wpa_ie(), which\nis kmemdup'd to its exact length, so the read can run off the end of\nthe allocation.\n\nThe sibling helpers rtw_get_sec_ie(), rtw_get_wapi_ie() and\nrtw_get_wps_ie() in this file already reject too-short vendor-specific\nIEs before their OUI memcmp(); rtw_get_wpa_ie() was never brought in\nline with them, and needs a minimum of 6 rather than 4 bytes because\nof the version word. 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Those accesses require the IE body to be at\nleast 6 bytes, but rtw_get_ie() only guarantees that the element fits\nwithin the buffer; it does not enforce a minimum body length. A\nvendor-specific IE whose length byte is 0 to 5, placed at the end of\nthe buffer, therefore makes these reads run past the end of the IE and\npast the end of the buffer itself.\n\nThe buffer holds information elements taken from received management\nframes and from the IE blob passed to rtw_cfg80211_set_wpa_ie(), which\nis kmemdup'd to its exact length, so the read can run off the end of\nthe allocation.\n\nThe sibling helpers rtw_get_sec_ie(), rtw_get_wapi_ie() and\nrtw_get_wps_ie() in this file already reject too-short vendor-specific\nIEs before their OUI memcmp(); rtw_get_wpa_ie() was never brought in\nline with them, and needs a minimum of 6 rather than 4 bytes because\nof the version word. Add the missing length check."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "En el kernel de Linux, la siguiente vulnerabilidad ha sido resuelta:\n\nstaging: rtl8723bs: corregir lectura fuera de l\u00edmites en rtw_get_wpa_ie()\n\nrtw_get_wpa_ie() lee bytes en desplazamientos fijos en un elemento de informaci\u00f3n espec\u00edfico del proveedor sin comprobar que el elemento sea lo suficientemente largo, causando una lectura fuera de l\u00edmites para un IE final corto.\n\nLa funci\u00f3n localiza un IE espec\u00edfico del proveedor (EID 221) con rtw_get_ie() y luego compara un OUI+tipo de 4 bytes en pbuf + 2 y lee una palabra de versi\u00f3n de 2 bytes en pbuf + 6. Esos accesos requieren que el cuerpo del IE tenga al menos 6 bytes, pero rtw_get_ie() solo garantiza que el elemento cabe dentro del b\u00fafer; no impone una longitud m\u00ednima del cuerpo. 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