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FKIE_CVE-2022-50863

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-30 13:16 - Updated: 2025-12-30 13:16

Severity ?

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw89: free unused skb to prevent memory leak This avoid potential memory leak under power saving mode.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/216c59b66f2d0c428a4fdaa24dc28cd6be4a2bf6
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4b4f6ff8ff1b87d25977423cf38fb61744d0023
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eae672f386049146058b9e5d3d33e9e4af9dca1d

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2022-50863 (GCVE-0-2022-50863)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:15 – Updated: 2025-12-30 12:15

Title

wifi: rtw89: free unused skb to prevent memory leak

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw89: free unused skb to prevent memory leak This avoid potential memory leak under power saving mode.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4b4f6ff8ff1b87d2…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/216c59b66f2d0c428…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eae672f3860491460…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < d4b4f6ff8ff1b87d25977423cf38fb61744d0023 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 216c59b66f2d0c428a4fdaa24dc28cd6be4a2bf6 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < eae672f386049146058b9e5d3d33e9e4af9dca1d (git)

Linux

Unaffected: 5.19.17 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.3 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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CVE-2022-50863 (GCVE-0-2022-50863)

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