CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-64145

7.8 HIGH Published 2026-07-19 Modified 2026-08-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-07-19
Last modified
2026-08-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wilc1000: fix dma_buffer leak on bus acquire failure wilc_wlan_firmware_download() allocates dma_buffer with kmalloc() at the top of the function and uses a 'fail:' label to free it via kfree(dma_buffer) on error. All later error paths correctly use 'goto fail' to route through this cleanup. However, the early failure path after the first acquire_bus() call uses a bare 'return ret;', which leaks dma_buffer whenever the bus acquire fails. Replace the early return with goto fail so the existing cleanup path runs. Found via a custom Coccinelle semantic patch hunting for kmalloc'd locals leaked on early-return error paths in driver firmware-download code.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.34) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.11) • linux linux kernel 7.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References