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GHSA-6VVG-4GG9-MCQ6

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

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: wilc1000: fix potential memory leak in wilc_mac_xmit()

The wilc_mac_xmit() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb, add dev_kfree_skb() to fix it. Compile tested only.

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CVE-2022-50832 (GCVE-0-2022-50832)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:10 – Updated: 2025-12-30 12:10

Title

wifi: wilc1000: fix potential memory leak in wilc_mac_xmit()

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wilc1000: fix potential memory leak in wilc_mac_xmit() The wilc_mac_xmit() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb, add dev_kfree_skb() to fix it. Compile tested only.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

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	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a12610e83789c8384…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1e94fb4d09d0fcfe…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5706d00fde3f1d5eb…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07dcd756e28f27e4f…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/baef42df7de7c35ba…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/deb962ec9e1c9a81b…

Impacted products

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Product

Version

Linux

Affected: c5c77ba18ea66aa05441c71e38473efb787705a4 , < a12610e83789c838493034e5c50ac5c903ad8c0d (git)
Affected: c5c77ba18ea66aa05441c71e38473efb787705a4 , < a1e94fb4d09d0fcfeaa73aa49d787f06c42db7ee (git)
Affected: c5c77ba18ea66aa05441c71e38473efb787705a4 , < 5706d00fde3f1d5eb7296a4dfefb6aea35108224 (git)
Affected: c5c77ba18ea66aa05441c71e38473efb787705a4 , < 07dcd756e28f27e4f8fcd8b809ffa05a5cc5de2b (git)
Affected: c5c77ba18ea66aa05441c71e38473efb787705a4 , < baef42df7de7c35ba60b75a5f96d1eb039f4d782 (git)
Affected: c5c77ba18ea66aa05441c71e38473efb787705a4 , < deb962ec9e1c9a81babd3d37542ad4bd6ac3396e (git)

Linux

Affected: 4.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.2 (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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