CVE-2026-80942

CVE-2026-80942

published September 12, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

wifi: rtlwifi: rtl8192du: Fix possible memory leak in rtl92du_init_sw_vars()

The memory allocated inside rtl92du_init_shared_data() is not freed in

any of the subsequent error paths in rtl92du_init_sw_vars().

Fix that by adding a call to rtl92du_deinit_shared_data() in the error

path.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00168 · 5.8th percentile
Published
2026-09-12T00:18Z
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 SEP 03:23Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 11 SEP 19:42Z
    wifi: rtlwifi: rtl8192du: Fix possible memory leak in rtl92du_init_sw_vars()
    cvelistv5