staging: rtl8723bs: fix a potential memory leak in rtw_init_cmd_priv()
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.
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 5.10.150, 5.15.75, 5.19.17, 5.4.220, 6.0.3
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-50513
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 5 Nov 2026, 10:30 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
staging: rtl8723bs: fix a potential memory leak in rtw_init_cmd_priv()
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 7 Oct 2025, 15:19 UTC
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.
osv:CVE-2022-50513
Kernel
Fixed versions: 5.4.220, 5.10.150, 5.15.75, 5.19.17, 6.0.3
Complete source record
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