CVE-2026-80942

medium

Description

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc8b0be0ec4d9b0c80f07b27e656e4a94de5a344

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7159e1e12468a0b1ac519b296280c0a27f91eab5

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6496ce90845df2d22fb8e8ed235cd2936fad41c8

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a5b23e7dbeb00c93ec3b8add97f5de9bb9cbb5c

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-11

Updated: 2026-09-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00168