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staging: rtl8723bs: fix out-of-bounds read in OnBeacon ESR IE parsing
authorNavaneeth K <knavaneeth786@gmail.com>
Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:35:20 +0000 (16:35 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:42:47 +0000 (18:42 +0100)
commitbf323db1d883c209880bd92f3b12503e3531c3fc
tree603783cb4aa13bebefa970cde9965c6754e70516
parente841d8ea722315b781c4fc5bf4f7670fbca88875
staging: rtl8723bs: fix out-of-bounds read in OnBeacon ESR IE parsing

commit 502ddcc405b69fa92e0add6c1714d654504f6fd7 upstream.

The Extended Supported Rates (ESR) IE handling in OnBeacon accessed
*(p + 1 + ielen) and *(p + 2 + ielen) without verifying that these
offsets lie within the received frame buffer. A malformed beacon with
an ESR IE positioned at the end of the buffer could cause an
out-of-bounds read, potentially triggering a kernel panic.

Add a boundary check to ensure that the ESR IE body and the subsequent
bytes are within the limits of the frame before attempting to access
them.

This prevents OOB reads caused by malformed beacon frames.

Signed-off-by: Navaneeth K <knavaneeth786@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c