CVE-2026-43225

staging: rtl8723bs: fix memory leak on failure path

published May 6, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

staging: rtl8723bs: fix memory leak on failure path

cfg80211_inform_bss_frame() may return NULL on failure. In that case,

the allocated buffer 'buf' is not freed and the function returns early,

leading to potential memory leak.

Fix this by ensuring that 'buf' is freed on both success and failure paths.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00162 · 5.1th percentile
Published
2026-05-06T11:28Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 MAY 11:28Z
    staging: rtl8723bs: fix memory leak on failure path
    cvelistv5