CVE-2022-50469: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: rtl8723bs: fix potential memory leak in rtwinitdrvsw In rtwinitdrvsw, there are various init functions are called to populate the padapter structure and some checks for their return value. However, except for the first o...

PT-2022-5910 · Linux +2 · Linux Kernel +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions through 5.16-rc6 Description: An issue in the Linux kernel is related to the function rtw init xmit priv in the drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw xmit.c module, which lacks a check of the return value of rtw alloc hwxmits...