Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Wifi: rt2x00: Fixed memory leak when handling survey data When removing a rt2x00 device, the associated channel surveys are not freed, resulting in a memory leak observable with kmemleak. The affected object is: 0xffff9620f0881a0...

kernel: Linux kernel rt2x00 Wi-Fi driver: Denial of Service via memory leak during device removal

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's rt2x00 Wi-Fi driver. A local user could exploit this vulnerability when a rt2x00 device is removed, as its associated channel surveys are not properly freed. This leads to a memory leak, which could result in a Denial of Service DoS due to resource exhaustio...