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CVE-2022-49881

wifi: cfg80211: fix memory leak in query_regdb_file() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: fix memory leak in query_regdb_file() In the function query_regdb_file() the alpha2 parameter is duplicated using kmemdup() and subsequently freed in regdb_fw_cb(). However, request_firmware_nowait() can fail without calling regdb_fw_cb() and thus leak memory.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 007f6c5e6eb45c81ee89368a5f226572ae638831 before 219446396786330937bcd382a7bc4ccd767383bc; affected 007f6c5e6eb45c81ee89368a5f226572ae638831 before 0ede1a988299e95d54bd89551fd635980572e920; affected 007f6c5e6eb45c81ee89368a5f226572ae638831 before e1e12180321f416d83444f2cdc9259e0f5093d35; affected 007f6c5e6eb45c81ee89368a5f226572ae638831 before 38c9fa2cc6bf4b6e1a74057aef8b5cffd23d3264; affected 007f6c5e6eb45c81ee89368a5f226572ae638831 before e9b5a4566d5bc71cc901be50d1fa24da00613120; affected 007f6c5e6eb45c81ee89368a5f226572ae638831 before 57b962e627ec0ae53d4d16d7bd1033e27e67677a
Linux / Linuxaffected 4.15; unaffected 0 before 4.15; unaffected 4.19.267 through 4.19.*; unaffected 5.4.225 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.155 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.79 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.0.9 through 6.0.*; unaffected 6.1 through *

CWE

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