CVE-2025-68759 (GCVE-0-2025-68759)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-05 09:32 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:52
VLAI
Title
wifi: rtl818x: Fix potential memory leaks in rtl8180_init_rx_ring()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtl818x: Fix potential memory leaks in rtl8180_init_rx_ring() In rtl8180_init_rx_ring(), memory is allocated for skb packets and DMA allocations in a loop. When an allocation fails, the previously successful allocations are not freed on exit. Fix that by jumping to err_free_rings label on error, which calls rtl8180_free_rx_ring() to free the allocations. Remove the free of rx_ring in rtl8180_init_rx_ring() error path, and set the freed priv->rx_buf entry to null, to avoid double free.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: f653211197f3841f383fa9757ef8ce182c6cf627 , < 3677c01891fb0239361e444afee8398868e34bdf (git)
Affected: f653211197f3841f383fa9757ef8ce182c6cf627 , < 89caaeee8dd95fae8bb4f4964e6fe3ca688500c4 (git)
Affected: f653211197f3841f383fa9757ef8ce182c6cf627 , < a4fb7cca9837378878e6c94d9e7af019c8fdfcdb (git)
Affected: f653211197f3841f383fa9757ef8ce182c6cf627 , < bf8513dfa31ea015c9cf415796dca2113d293840 (git)
Affected: f653211197f3841f383fa9757ef8ce182c6cf627 , < ee7db11742b30641f21306105ad27a275e3c61d7 (git)
Affected: f653211197f3841f383fa9757ef8ce182c6cf627 , < a813a74570212cb5f3a7d3b05c0cb0cd00bace1d (git)
Affected: f653211197f3841f383fa9757ef8ce182c6cf627 , < c9d1c4152e6d32fa74034464854bee262a60bc43 (git)
Affected: f653211197f3841f383fa9757ef8ce182c6cf627 , < 9b5b9c042b30befc5b37e4539ace95af70843473 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.25
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.25 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.248 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.198 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.160 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.120 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.63 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.13 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.2 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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