Upstream information

CVE-2026-43225 at MITRE

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

staging: rtl8723bs: fix memory leak on failure path

cfg80211_inform_bss_frame() may return NULL on failure. In that case,
the allocated buffer 'buf' is not freed and the function returns early,
leading to potential memory leak.
Fix this by ensuring that 'buf' is freed on both success and failure paths.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1264526 [NEW]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed May 6 16:05:03 2026
CVE page last modified: Fri May 8 12:09:00 2026