{"cve":"CVE-2026-90018","nvd":{"published":"2026-09-16T11:17:14.647","modified":"2026-10-19T09:18:49.780","status":"Received","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nstaging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read / stack overflow in rtw_get_wps_attr()\n\nrtw_get_wps_attr() walks WPS attributes inside a WPS IE taken from\na wireless management frame. For each candidate attribute it only\nchecks that the fixed 4-byte attribute header (2-byte ID + 2-byte\nlength) fits inside the IE:\n\n\tif (attr_ptr + 4 > wps_ie + wps_ielen)\n\t\tbreak;\n\tu16 attr_id = get_unaligned_be16(attr_ptr);\n\tu16 attr_data_len = get_unaligned_be16(attr_ptr + 2);\n\tu16 attr_len = attr_data_len + 4;\n\nattr_data_len (and therefore attr_len) is read directly from the\nwire and is never checked against the remaining bytes in the IE\nbefore being used as the size of:\n\n\tmemcpy(buf_attr, attr_ptr, attr_len);\n\nSince attr_len is fully attacker controlled (0 to 65535+4), this is\nboth a heap OOB read of wps_ie, and, more seriously, a stack buffer\noverflow at several call sites where buf_attr is a single-byte\nstack variable, e.g. rtw_get_wps_attr_content()'s callers passing\nWPS_ATTR_SELECTED_REGISTRAR into a stack \"u8 sr\"/\"u8\nselected_registrar\" (drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c,\ndrivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c). A crafted WPS IE in a\nbeacon or probe response processed during scanning can therefore\nsmash the stack of the parsing thread.\n\nrtw_get_wps_attr_content() itself has no independent length check\nand simply trusts the attr_len it gets back from rtw_get_wps_attr(),\nso fixing the bound here also fixes that caller.\n\nThe \"attr_ptr + 4 > wps_ie + wps_ielen\" header check above was added\nby commit 1463ca3ec6601 (\"staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB reads in\nrtw_get_sec_ie(), rtw_get_wapi_ie(), and rtw_get_wps_attr()\"), which\nbounded the fixed header but never extended the check to cover the\nvariable-length attribute data that follows it. Add that missing\ncheck before attr_len is used as a memcpy() length or accepted as a\nmatch.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":8.8},"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34f51d196c43a42046d229de5e79025d5ca553ca","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a6457ebf39080b87c712657fdb38f34a24fc3ff","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/931640dfcb8cfa08f6cfb46229716d8072356420","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99aa998dec83ba180822f70e6d48a514fc81c20d","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a53d1ac9ce63db07943b2b2248111003851fb00f"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:54:41.405518556+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-90018","score":0.00447,"percentile":0.3862,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}