CVE-2023-54001 (GCVE-0-2023-54001)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 10:55 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:53
VLAI
Title
staging: r8712: Fix memory leak in _r8712_init_xmit_priv()
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 2865d42c78a9121caad52cb02d1fbb7f5cdbc4ef , < fc511ae405f7ba29fbcb0246061ec15c272386e1 (git)
Affected: 2865d42c78a9121caad52cb02d1fbb7f5cdbc4ef , < acacdbe0f740ca8c5d5da73d50870903a3ded677 (git)
Affected: 2865d42c78a9121caad52cb02d1fbb7f5cdbc4ef , < 41e05572e871b10dbdc168c76175c97982daf4a4 (git)
Affected: 2865d42c78a9121caad52cb02d1fbb7f5cdbc4ef , < 874555472c736813ba1f4baf0b4c09c8e26d81ea (git)
Affected: 2865d42c78a9121caad52cb02d1fbb7f5cdbc4ef , < ac83631230f77dda94154ed0ebfd368fc81c70a3 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.37
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.37 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.190 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.124 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.43 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.8 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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