CVE-2026-43159 (GCVE-0-2026-43159)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-06 11:27 – Updated: 2026-05-06 11:27
VLAI?
Title
staging: rtl8723bs: fix null dereference in find_network
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
staging: rtl8723bs: fix null dereference in find_network
The variable pwlan has the possibility of being NULL when passed into
rtw_free_network_nolock() which would later dereference the variable.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b , < 3b1d0c9a1f78836d0bce6fdd37f596f22c19b03e
(git)
Affected: 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b , < 1aa9c59f4b96a9056c02476c7ca89e96d15e0645 (git) Affected: 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b , < 48b4dec3a8bfd667cd0cd767eaf511176193e9a1 (git) Affected: 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b , < cc3f83b6fb3773ad943365d1cd774b4ec050332e (git) Affected: 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b , < 04d24a3654ed195485bc6346a9ef326fc494a34e (git) Affected: 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b , < 677490a6bd4c63acdf6f48e4aaf6a23d7e6a446f (git) Affected: 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b , < 7fa16ffed2b9d9d44940990c1f31159770769aeb (git) Affected: 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b , < 41460a19654c32d39fd0e3a3671cd8d4b7b8479f (git) |
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