diff --git a/CORE/SYS/legacy/src/utils/src/utilsParser.c b/CORE/SYS/legacy/src/utils/src/utilsParser.c
index 32f1992..c5f27a8 100644
--- a/CORE/SYS/legacy/src/utils/src/utilsParser.c
+++ b/CORE/SYS/legacy/src/utils/src/utilsParser.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2011-2015, 2017 The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2011-2015, 2017-2019 The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
  *
  * Previously licensed under the ISC license by Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.
  *
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
 {
     // This is awful, I know, but the old code just rammed the IE into
     // an opaque array.  Note that we need to explicitly add the vendorIE and OUI !
-    tANI_U8 curAddIELen = pOld->length; 
+    tANI_U16 curAddIELen = pOld->length;
 
     pOld->length    = curAddIELen + pNew->num_data + 6;
     pOld->addIEdata[ curAddIELen++ ] = 0xdd;
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@
 {
     // This is awful, I know, but the old code just rammed the IE into
     // an opaque array.  Note that we need to explicitly add the vendorIE and OUI !
-    tANI_U8 curAddIELen = pOld->length; 
+    tANI_U16 curAddIELen = pOld->length;
 
     pOld->length    = curAddIELen + pNew->num_data + 6;
     pOld->addIEdata[ curAddIELen++ ] = 0xdd;
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
 {
     // This is awful, I know, but the old code just rammed the IE into
     // an opaque array.  Note that we need to explicitly add the vendorIE and OUI !
-    tANI_U8 curAddIELen = pOld->length; 
+    tANI_U16 curAddIELen = pOld->length;
 
     pOld->length    = curAddIELen + pNew->num_data + 6;
     pOld->addIEdata[ curAddIELen++ ] = 0xdd;