Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 6, 2026· Updated May 8, 2026
CVE-2026-43225
CVE-2026-43225
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
staging: rtl8723bs: fix memory leak on failure path
cfg80211_inform_bss_frame() may return NULL on failure. In that case, the allocated buffer 'buf' is not freed and the function returns early, leading to potential memory leak. Fix this by ensuring that 'buf' is freed on both success and failure paths.
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References
7- git.kernel.org/stable/c/017295b17bf1f477246c95bd253a7ef0cb4684c9nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8311bb40698ba027649d5d1ca84ad4bf25270546nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9874e33ce52ba449ab0ade78752a2d37a2294617nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f70f78e22b321429afc77befecedf05543d4e2cnvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a968c6a39607c129b8ac2c3c2a5e8923574e90d0nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/abe850d82c8cb72d28700673678724e779b1826envdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/af48c1a0abe849e167fc754b6c260b6d8350b6fdnvdPatch
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