CVE Catalog

CVE-2022-49105

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.24%

16th percentile - higher than 16% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, an error handling issue in wfx_init_common() in the staging wfx driver was fixed. One error handler did not call ieee80211_free_hw(hw), potentially causing a memory leak.

Risk Assessment

Memory leak can lead to resource exhaustion and system instability.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix for CVE-2022-49105.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: wfx: fix an error handling in wfx_init_common() One error handler of wfx_init_common() return without calling ieee80211_free_hw(hw), which may result in memory leak. And I add one err label to unify the error handler, which is useful for the subsequent changes.

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