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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 18, 2025

wifi: libertas: Fix possible refcount leak in if_usb_probe()

CVE-2022-50162

Description

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

wifi: libertas: Fix possible refcount leak in if_usb_probe()

usb_get_dev will be called before lbs_get_firmware_async which means that usb_put_dev need to be called when lbs_get_firmware_async fails.

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