CVE-2022-49881: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: fix memory leak in query_regdb_file() In the function query_regdb_file() the alpha2 parameter is duplicated using kmemdup() and subsequently freed in regdb_fw_cb(). However, request_firmware_nowait() can fail without calling regdb_fw_cb() and thus leak memory.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.15, before 4.19.267 (fixed in 4.19.267); from 4.20, before 5.4.225 (fixed in 5.4.225); from 5.5, before 5.10.155 (fixed in 5.10.155); from 5.11, before 5.15.79 (fixed in 5.15.79); from 5.16, before 6.0.9 (fixed in 6.0.9); version 6.1 only

Published 2025-05-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.