CVE-2026-80942

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80942

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-80942.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-80942

Downstream

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-80942

Published

2026-09-11T19:42:14Z

Modified

2026-09-13T03:46:55Z

Summary

wifi: rtlwifi: rtl8192du: Fix possible memory leak in rtl92du_init_sw_vars()

Details

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

wifi: rtlwifi: rtl8192du: Fix possible memory leak in rtl92du_init_sw_vars()

The memory allocated inside rtl92du_init_shared_data() is not freed in any of the subsequent error paths in rtl92du_init_sw_vars(). Fix that by adding a call to rtl92du_deinit_shared_data() in the error path.

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/80xxx/CVE-2026-80942.json"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type: GIT
Repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events: Introduced

b5dc8873b6ffebd331e46814e537179eac8b6aa4

Fixed

3a5b23e7dbeb00c93ec3b8add97f5de9bb9cbb5c

Fixed

dc8b0be0ec4d9b0c80f07b27e656e4a94de5a344

Fixed

7159e1e12468a0b1ac519b296280c0a27f91eab5

Fixed

6496ce90845df2d22fb8e8ed235cd2936fad41c8

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-80942.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name: Kernel

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

6.11.0

Fixed

6.12.109

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

6.13.0

Fixed

6.18.50

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

6.19.0

Fixed

7.2.4

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-80942.json"