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Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi Linux Driver Hardened Against Malicious WiFi Access Points

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 July 2026

The staging driver fixes that were sent out this week ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 release is predominantly made up of hardening the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver. In particular, a number of fixes for addressing out-of-bounds behavior when connecting to "bad" WiFi hosts...