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CVE-2022-49881

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: fix memory leak in query_regdb_file() In the function query_regdb_file() the alpha2 parameter is duplicated using kmemdup() and subsequently freed in regdb_fw_cb(). However, request_firmware_nowait() can fail without calling regdb_fw_cb() and thus leak memory.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.267
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.225
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.79
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.0.9
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.155

Analysis

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