CVE-2026-43225

Name	CVE-2026-43225
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bullseye	5.10.223-1	vulnerable
	bullseye (security)	5.10.251-3	vulnerable
	bookworm	6.1.159-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.170-1	fixed
	trixie	6.12.73-1	vulnerable
	trixie (security)	6.12.85-1	fixed
	forky	6.19.14-1	fixed
	sid	7.0.3-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version
linux	source	bookworm	6.1.170-1
linux	source	trixie	6.12.85-1
linux	source	(unstable)	6.19.6-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/abe850d82c8cb72d28700673678724e779b1826e (7.0-rc1)