CVE-2025-71273 (GCVE-0-2025-71273)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-06 11:27 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:57
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Title
wifi: rtw88: Use devm_kmemdup() in rtw_set_supported_band()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw88: Use devm_kmemdup() in rtw_set_supported_band() Simplify the code by using device managed memory allocations. This also fixes a memory leak in rtw_register_hw(). The supported bands were not freed in the error path. Copied from commit 145df52a8671 ("wifi: rtw89: Convert rtw89_core_set_supported_band to use devm_*").
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Linux Linux Affected: e3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9 , < 9b5418070ee8468fac9e8bf641c83d46b85bff30 (git)
Affected: e3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9 , < ad9b80ee310ed734482a2e5da874b67f88ac0ef8 (git)
Affected: e3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9 , < 1bd90e0a99fdc8dc5deb3c92bf865e4496b4b311 (git)
Affected: e3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9 , < 2ba12401cc1f2d970fa2e7d5b15abde3f5abd40d (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.75 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.16 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.6 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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