Riskcovery

CVE-2026-80942

wifi: rtlwifi: rtl8192du: Fix possible memory leak in rtl92du_init_sw_vars()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 11, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Aug 26, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: rtlwifi: rtl8192du: Fix possible memory leak in rtl92du_init_sw_vars()

The memory allocated inside rtl92du_init_shared_data() is not freed in any of the subsequent error paths in rtl92du_init_sw_vars(). Fix that by adding a call to rtl92du_deinit_shared_data() in the error path.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • b5dc8873b6ffebd331e46814e537179eac8b6aa4 to before 3a5b23e7dbeb00c93ec3b8add97f5de9bb9cbb5cAffected
  • b5dc8873b6ffebd331e46814e537179eac8b6aa4 to before dc8b0be0ec4d9b0c80f07b27e656e4a94de5a344Affected
  • b5dc8873b6ffebd331e46814e537179eac8b6aa4 to before 7159e1e12468a0b1ac519b296280c0a27f91eab5Affected
  • b5dc8873b6ffebd331e46814e537179eac8b6aa4 to before 6496ce90845df2d22fb8e8ed235cd2936fad41c8Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.11Affected
  • before 6.11Not affected
  • 6.12.109 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.50 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.4 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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