Bug 2467165 (CVE-2026-43225) - CVE-2026-43225 kernel: staging: rtl8723bs: fix memory leak on failure path
Summary: CVE-2026-43225 kernel: staging: rtl8723bs: fix memory leak on failure path
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-43225
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-05-06 13:08 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-05-06 22:14 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-06 13:08:01 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

staging: rtl8723bs: fix memory leak on failure path

cfg80211_inform_bss_frame() may return NULL on failure. In that case,
the allocated buffer 'buf' is not freed and the function returns early,
leading to potential memory leak.
Fix this by ensuring that 'buf' is freed on both success and failure paths.


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