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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: r8712: Fix memory leak in _r8712_init_xmit_priv() In the above mentioned routine, memory is allocated in several places. If the first succeeds and a later one fails, the routine will leak memory. This patch fixes commit 2865d42c78a9 ("staging: r8712u: Add the new driver to the mainline kernel"). A potential memory leak in r8712_xmit_resource_alloc() is also addressed.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-12-24 | Published 2025-12-24 | Updated 2025-12-24 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

2865d42c78a9121caad52cb02d1fbb7f5cdbc4ef (git) before fc511ae405f7ba29fbcb0246061ec15c272386e1
affected

2865d42c78a9121caad52cb02d1fbb7f5cdbc4ef (git) before acacdbe0f740ca8c5d5da73d50870903a3ded677
affected

2865d42c78a9121caad52cb02d1fbb7f5cdbc4ef (git) before 41e05572e871b10dbdc168c76175c97982daf4a4
affected

2865d42c78a9121caad52cb02d1fbb7f5cdbc4ef (git) before 874555472c736813ba1f4baf0b4c09c8e26d81ea
affected

2865d42c78a9121caad52cb02d1fbb7f5cdbc4ef (git) before ac83631230f77dda94154ed0ebfd368fc81c70a3
affected

Default status
affected

2.6.37
affected

Any version before 2.6.37
unaffected

5.10.190 (semver)
unaffected

5.15.124 (semver)
unaffected

6.1.43 (semver)
unaffected

6.4.8 (semver)
unaffected

6.5 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/fc511ae405f7ba29fbcb0246061ec15c272386e1

git.kernel.org/...c/acacdbe0f740ca8c5d5da73d50870903a3ded677

git.kernel.org/...c/41e05572e871b10dbdc168c76175c97982daf4a4

git.kernel.org/...c/874555472c736813ba1f4baf0b4c09c8e26d81ea

git.kernel.org/...c/ac83631230f77dda94154ed0ebfd368fc81c70a3

cve.org (CVE-2023-54001)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2023-54001)

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