CVE-2025-71234 (GCVE-0-2025-71234)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-18 14:53 – Updated: 2026-02-23 03:16
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Title
wifi: rtl8xxxu: fix slab-out-of-bounds in rtl8xxxu_sta_add
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtl8xxxu: fix slab-out-of-bounds in rtl8xxxu_sta_add The driver does not set hw->sta_data_size, which causes mac80211 to allocate insufficient space for driver private station data in __sta_info_alloc(). When rtl8xxxu_sta_add() accesses members of struct rtl8xxxu_sta_info through sta->drv_priv, this results in a slab-out-of-bounds write. KASAN report on RISC-V (VisionFive 2) with RTL8192EU adapter: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in rtl8xxxu_sta_add+0x31c/0x346 Write of size 8 at addr ffffffd6d3e9ae88 by task kworker/u16:0/12 Set hw->sta_data_size to sizeof(struct rtl8xxxu_sta_info) during probe, similar to how hw->vif_data_size is configured. This ensures mac80211 allocates sufficient space for the driver's per-station private data. Tested on StarFive VisionFive 2 v1.2A board.
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Linux Linux Affected: eef55f1545c92c7181d5083453dee1296298ad3e , < 5d810ba377eddee95d30766d360a14efbb3d1872 (git)
Affected: eef55f1545c92c7181d5083453dee1296298ad3e , < 116f7bd8160c6b37d1c6939385abf90f6f6ed2f5 (git)
Affected: eef55f1545c92c7181d5083453dee1296298ad3e , < 9a0f3fa6ecd0c9c32dbc367a57482bbf7c7d25bf (git)
Affected: eef55f1545c92c7181d5083453dee1296298ad3e , < 86c946bcc00f6390ef65e9614ae60a9377e454f8 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.9
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.9 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.72 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.11 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.1 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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