CVE-2026-68413 (GCVE-0-2026-68413)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 12:04 – Updated: 2026-08-19 16:35
VLAI
Title
wifi: ipw2100: fix potential memory leak in ipw2100_pci_init_one()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ipw2100: fix potential memory leak in ipw2100_pci_init_one() The memory allocated in the ipw2100_alloc_device() function is not freed in some of the error paths in ipw2100_pci_init_one(). Fix that by converting the direct return into a goto to the error path return. The error path when pci_enable_device() fails cannot jump to fail, since at this point priv is not set, so perform error handling inline.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 2c86c275015c880e810830304a3a4ab94803b38b , < 71614326ab43e8b8f392ba865aeb6d7e327dff7d (git)
Affected: 2c86c275015c880e810830304a3a4ab94803b38b , < 9b080198a22fd809c4e7f6793eafab53ac2643fd (git)
Affected: 2c86c275015c880e810830304a3a4ab94803b38b , < 768a701362a8f77b62c14f8202ad559b7ecbb0c6 (git)
Affected: 2c86c275015c880e810830304a3a4ab94803b38b , < f75b9a2a9d8334ae0f9c5e47df7b31f7aeb1fdbe (git)
Affected: 2c86c275015c880e810830304a3a4ab94803b38b , < 836a19c654dcb1b01878a70090af016fbd0fd7e5 (git)
Affected: 2c86c275015c880e810830304a3a4ab94803b38b , < f442e581a88937671a22ceb3806c186265ef6254 (git)
Affected: 2c86c275015c880e810830304a3a4ab94803b38b , < 7cbda50eebcd9aa00b0de382f776287cf7a36cf8 (git)
Affected: 2c86c275015c880e810830304a3a4ab94803b38b , < 0d388f62031dbabcba0f44bb91b59f10e88cac17 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.265 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.216 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.183 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.148 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.101 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.42 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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