CVE-2026-43225: 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 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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.12, before 5.15.202 (fixed in 5.15.202); from 5.16, before 6.1.165 (fixed in 6.1.165); from 6.2, before 6.6.128 (fixed in 6.6.128); from 6.7, before 6.12.75 (fixed in 6.12.75); from 6.13, before 6.18.16 (fixed in 6.18.16); from 6.19, before 6.19.6 (fixed in 6.19.6)

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