CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50513
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-10-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
staging: rtl8723bs: fix a potential memory leak in rtw_init_cmd_priv()
In rtw_init_cmd_priv(), if `pcmdpriv->rsp_allocated_buf` is allocated
in failure, then `pcmdpriv->cmd_allocated_buf` will be not properly
released. Besides, considering there are only two error paths and the
first one can directly return, so we do not need implicitly jump to the
`exit` tag to execute the error handler.
So this patch added `kfree(pcmdpriv->cmd_allocated_buf);` on the error
path to release the resource and simplified the return logic of
rtw_init_cmd_priv(). As there is no proper device to test with, no runtime
testing was performed.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.12 < 5.4.220)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.150)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.75)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.19.17)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.0 < 6.0.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39bef9c6a91bbb790d04c1347cfeae584541fb6a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/708056fba733a73d926772ea4ce9a42d240345da Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8db6ca84eee0ac258706f3fca54f7c021cb159ef Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5be64ff6d21f7805a91e6d81f53fc19cd9f0fae Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5d8f05edb36fc4ab15beec62cb6ab62f5a60fe2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6cc39db24a63f68314473621020ed8cad7be423 Patch