CVE-2022-50321 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2022-50321

wifi: brcmfmac: fix potential memory leak in brcmf_netdev_start_xmit()

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: brcmfmac: fix potential memory leak in brcmf_netdev_start_xmit() The brcmf_netdev_start_xmit() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb in case of pskb_expand_head() fails, add dev_kfree_skb() to fix it. Compile tested only.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
270a6c1f65fe68a28a5d39cd405592c550b496c7, 4.13, 0, 4.14.308, 4.19.276, 5.4.235, 5.10.173, 5.15.99, 6.1.16, 6.2.3, 6.3

Timeline

Official Publish: September 15th, 2025
Last Modified: May 11th, 2026
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.