rtl8723bs

A newly assigned security record, CVE-2025-68256, closes a dangerous gap in the Linux kernel’s staging Realtek driver for the RTL8723BS wireless chipset by hardening the driver’s Information Element (IE) parser — rtw_get_ie — against an out‑of‑bounds read that could be triggered by a malformed...

A new Linux kernel CVE has been published that fixes a straightforward—but dangerous—stack buffer overflow in the Realtek staging driver rtl8723bs; the bug allows a malformed wireless Association Request to overflow a 16‑byte stack buffer when parsing the Supported Rates Information Element...

A recently assigned vulnerability, CVE-2025-68254, patches an out‑of‑bounds read in the Linux kernel’s staging rtl8723bs Wi‑Fi driver by hardening the Extended Supported Rates (ESR) Information Element parsing in OnBeacon handling — a malformed beacon could otherwise force the driver to read...