staging: rtl8723bs: validate monitor transmit frame lengths
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: rtl8723bs: validate monitor transmit frame lengths rtw_cfg80211_monitor_if_xmit_entry() removes the radiotap header and then reads the 802.11 frame control field without checking that a base 802.11 header remains. The data path also pulls the calculated 802.11, QoS and SNAP header span before confirming that the skb contains it. A truncated frame can therefore cause out-of-bounds reads or leave insufficient data for the Ethernet address writes. Reject frames that do not contain the base 802.11 header and data frames that do not contain their complete calculated header span.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.265, 5.15.216, 6.1.183, 6.6.152, 6.12.104, 6.18.45, 7.1.9, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 5 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-74648
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-m738-m8ph-wwcp
- 2026-10-18 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
Other 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f03398d835f5249c49546f0eb0d0df6792b95d5f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3ac6d849de5f7abe14761d741bbb843ac793454
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7edd3adb0c80d70b4237640275c559610f438476
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5e5d78743992e235b76d2ebe5a403d60315aa8a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b0f62d2986a28e5e4188366bc2f4e2868b14790
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b3e4ed9c35d3d3b64fcc23f4a1f22b37c1865b1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd88f6289b7e483216a9c1df15a0460ef9b02cb6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6829665d050983907b560173e49dcc6c11cb2730
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Sources
- CVE-2026-74648 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-74648 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-m738-m8ph-wwcp · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-74648 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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