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GHSA-2HF5-VJ7W-QQ52

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-09-15 15:31 – Updated: 2025-12-03 21:30

Details

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

wifi: libertas: fix memory leak in lbs_init_adapter()

When kfifo_alloc() failed in lbs_init_adapter(), cmd buffer is not released. Add free memory to processing error path.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2022-50294 (GCVE-0-2022-50294)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-15 14:45 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:16

Title

wifi: libertas: fix memory leak in lbs_init_adapter()

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: libertas: fix memory leak in lbs_init_adapter() When kfifo_alloc() failed in lbs_init_adapter(), cmd buffer is not released. Add free memory to processing error path.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6843 records in the last 180 days details

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c102ad59bfa66c0f…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98e0ff6980c89239d…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23b34e08de5c23804…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c8f50c7433bdfba1…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/037f84c0bfae5c436…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/653d13a73e498d0bb…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d46c33f667b05c22b…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16a03958618fb91bb…

Impacted products

2 products

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Linux	Linux	Affected: 2.6.26 Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.26 (semver) Unaffected: 4.14.308 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.19.276 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.235 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.173 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.99 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.16 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.2.3 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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