CVE-2022-49881 (GCVE-0-2022-49881)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-01 14:10
Modified
2025-05-04 08:47
Severity ?
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Version: 007f6c5e6eb45c81ee89368a5f226572ae638831
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