In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtl818x: rtl8187: Fix potential buffer underflow in rtl8187_rx_cb() The rtl8187_rx_cb() calculates the rx descriptor header address by subtracting its size from the skb tail pointer. However, it does not validate if the received packet (skb->len from urb->actual_length) is large enough to contain this header. If a truncated packet is received, this will lead to a buffer underflow, reading memory before the start of the skb data area, and causing a kernel panic. Add length checks for both rtl8187 and rtl8187b descriptor headers before attempting to access them, dropping the packet cleanly if the check fails.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenunscoredNVD modified 2026-10-13 11:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/118e12bf3e4288cf845cd3759bd9d4c99f91aab5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4758770a673c60d8f615809304d72e1432fa6355
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ebf0fe7eaef9f6173a4c6ea77c5353e21645d15
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/638d4148e166d114a4cd7becaae992ce1a815ed8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a96bd0d94305fd04a6ac64446ec113bae289384
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b647d2574e4583c2e3b0ab35568f60c88e910840
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc153401fb26c1640a2b279c47b65e1c416af276
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2f3ea15e804607e0a4a34a2f6c331c8750b68bc