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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 6, 2026· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2025-71273

CVE-2025-71273

Description

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

wifi: rtw88: Use devm_kmemdup() in rtw_set_supported_band()

Simplify the code by using device managed memory allocations.

This also fixes a memory leak in rtw_register_hw(). The supported bands were not freed in the error path.

Copied from commit 145df52a8671 ("wifi: rtw89: Convert rtw89_core_set_supported_band to use devm_*").

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