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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 8, 2026

CVE-2026-46305

CVE-2026-46305

Description

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

staging: rtl8723bs: os_dep: avoid NULL pointer dereference in rtw_cbuf_alloc

The return value of kzalloc_flex() is used without ensuring that the allocation succeeded, and the pointer is dereferenced unconditionally.

Guard the access to the allocated structure to avoid a potential NULL pointer dereference if the allocation fails.

Affected products

4

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

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News mentions

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