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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 1, 2025· Updated Oct 1, 2025

wifi: cfg80211: fix memory leak in query_regdb_file()

CVE-2022-49881

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: cfg80211: fix memory leak in query_regdb_file()

In the function query_regdb_file() the alpha2 parameter is duplicated using kmemdup() and subsequently freed in regdb_fw_cb(). However, request_firmware_nowait() can fail without calling regdb_fw_cb() and thus leak memory.

Affected products

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Patches

0

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