Bug 2402210 (CVE-2022-50513) - CVE-2022-50513 kernel: staging: rtl8723bs: fix a potential memory leak in rtw_init_cmd_priv()
Summary: CVE-2022-50513 kernel: staging: rtl8723bs: fix a potential memory leak in rtw...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50513
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-10-07 16:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-11-26 12:19 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-07 16:02:58 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.


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