CVE-2022-50565 (GCVE-0-2022-50565)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-22 13:23 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:21
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Title
wifi: plfxlc: fix potential memory leak in __lf_x_usb_enable_rx()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: plfxlc: fix potential memory leak in __lf_x_usb_enable_rx() urbs does not be freed in exception paths in __lf_x_usb_enable_rx(). That will trigger memory leak. To fix it, add kfree() for urbs within "error" label. Compile tested only.
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Linux Linux Affected: 68d57a07bfe5bb29b80cd8b8fa24c9d1ea104124 , < 286464463a05cb4bad80b134e24f8ffaab20bee4 (git)
Affected: 68d57a07bfe5bb29b80cd8b8fa24c9d1ea104124 , < fce7e46273649d9cdcd98d89551975a65f206a14 (git)
Affected: 68d57a07bfe5bb29b80cd8b8fa24c9d1ea104124 , < 895b3b06efc285c1245242e9638b9ae251dc13ec (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.16 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.2 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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