CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-68413

Low risk· EPSS 9%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.19%

9th percentile - higher than 9% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the wifi ipw2100 driver has a potential memory leak in ipw2100_pci_init_one(). Memory allocated by ipw2100_alloc_device() is not freed in some error paths. The fix converts direct returns into gotos to the error path, and handles pci_enable_device() failure inline.

Risk Assessment

Memory leak can lead to gradual exhaustion of system resources, potentially causing system instability or denial of service over time.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that eliminates the memory leak in the ipw2100 driver.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ipw2100: fix potential memory leak in ipw2100_pci_init_one() The memory allocated in the ipw2100_alloc_device() function is not freed in some of the error paths in ipw2100_pci_init_one(). Fix that by converting the direct return into a goto to the error path return. The error path when pci_enable_device() fails cannot jump to fail, since at this point priv is not set, so perform error handling inline.

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