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CVE-2026-46305 (GCVE-0-2026-46305)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-08 15:46 – Updated: 2026-09-14 11:58
VLAI
Title
staging: rtl8723bs: os_dep: avoid NULL pointer dereference in rtw_cbuf_alloc
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: rtl8723bs: os_dep: avoid NULL pointer dereference in rtw_cbuf_alloc The return value of kzalloc_flex() is used without ensuring that the allocation succeeded, and the pointer is dereferenced unconditionally. Guard the access to the allocated structure to avoid a potential NULL pointer dereference if the allocation fails.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 368f19a5ed15f396db4ec2182c1311a7fa4f993b , < 7d4024037ee309a8f0cb86b4093d59da0e135db8 (git)
Affected: 980cd426a25747daf8ed25e2a1904b2d26ffbb3d , < 0a5f411becfb7c57aa89827213d31ef23a03d75a (git)
Affected: 980cd426a25747daf8ed25e2a1904b2d26ffbb3d , < bc851db06045a40c18233dd76ef0562d7f8bb6db (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 7.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 7.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.7 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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