Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 15, 2025
wifi: brcmfmac: fix potential memory leak in brcmf_netdev_start_xmit()
CVE-2022-50321
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: brcmfmac: fix potential memory leak in brcmf_netdev_start_xmit()
The brcmf_netdev_start_xmit() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb in case of pskb_expand_head() fails, add dev_kfree_skb() to fix it. Compile tested only.
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 4.13
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
8- git.kernel.org/stable/c/212fde3fe76e962598ce1d47b97cc78afdfc71b3mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a4d18318f473e97d628f410215b3fac32d07aedmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c55fdebc1c358de96bfab52ed309d58a3ba66efmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f159116d620615779adbf88a5d94713702216d8mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d869a189505224601e310c7769cb90b0e2f60b31mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e08e6812efb6a8c676e733de0518594d1517e0d9mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5d01e85cf46628647cd696cb72ba4659b18967fmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8ef89e5b89ee041a94eecfb6c31fcc237f9168cmitre
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