CVE-2022-50321 (GCVE-0-2022-50321)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-15 14:48 – Updated: 2025-09-15 14:48
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: brcmfmac: fix potential memory leak in brcmf_netdev_start_xmit() The brcmf_netdev_start_xmit() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb in case of pskb_expand_head() fails, add dev_kfree_skb() to fix it. Compile tested only.
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Linux Linux Affected: 270a6c1f65fe68a28a5d39cd405592c550b496c7 , < 4c55fdebc1c358de96bfab52ed309d58a3ba66ef (git)
Affected: 270a6c1f65fe68a28a5d39cd405592c550b496c7 , < e5d01e85cf46628647cd696cb72ba4659b18967f (git)
Affected: 270a6c1f65fe68a28a5d39cd405592c550b496c7 , < d869a189505224601e310c7769cb90b0e2f60b31 (git)
Affected: 270a6c1f65fe68a28a5d39cd405592c550b496c7 , < e08e6812efb6a8c676e733de0518594d1517e0d9 (git)
Affected: 270a6c1f65fe68a28a5d39cd405592c550b496c7 , < e8ef89e5b89ee041a94eecfb6c31fcc237f9168c (git)
Affected: 270a6c1f65fe68a28a5d39cd405592c550b496c7 , < 7f159116d620615779adbf88a5d94713702216d8 (git)
Affected: 270a6c1f65fe68a28a5d39cd405592c550b496c7 , < 3a4d18318f473e97d628f410215b3fac32d07aed (git)
Affected: 270a6c1f65fe68a28a5d39cd405592c550b496c7 , < 212fde3fe76e962598ce1d47b97cc78afdfc71b3 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 4.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.308 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.276 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.235 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.173 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.99 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.16 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.3 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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