CVE-2022-50321
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wifi: brcmfmac: fix potential memory leak in brcmf_netdev_start_xmit()
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.
Exploit probability
0.1%
Published
September 15, 2025
Required by
Not available
Last source change
August 12, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
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Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2022-50321
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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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/212fde3fe76e962598ce1d47b97cc78afdfc71b3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a4d18318f473e97d628f410215b3fac32d07aed
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c55fdebc1c358de96bfab52ed309d58a3ba66ef
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f159116d620615779adbf88a5d94713702216d8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d869a189505224601e310c7769cb90b0e2f60b31
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e08e6812efb6a8c676e733de0518594d1517e0d9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5d01e85cf46628647cd696cb72ba4659b18967f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8ef89e5b89ee041a94eecfb6c31fcc237f9168c
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/50xxx/CVE-2022-50321.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50321