CVE-2022-50513: 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: staging: rtl8723bs: fix a potential memory leak in rtw_init_cmd_priv() In rtw_init_cmd_priv(), if `pcmdpriv->rsp_allocated_buf` is allocated in failure, then `pcmdpriv->cmd_allocated_buf` will be not properly released. Besides, considering there are only two error paths and the first one can directly return, so we do not need implicitly jump to the `exit` tag to execute the error handler. So this patch added `kfree(pcmdpriv->cmd_allocated_buf);` on the error path to release the resource and simplified the return logic of rtw_init_cmd_priv(). As there is no proper device to test with, no runtime testing was performed.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.12, before 5.4.220 (fixed in 5.4.220); from 5.5, before 5.10.150 (fixed in 5.10.150); from 5.11, before 5.15.75 (fixed in 5.15.75); from 5.16, before 5.19.17 (fixed in 5.19.17); from 6.0, before 6.0.3 (fixed in 6.0.3)

Published 2025-10-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.