CVE-2025-37982

kernel: wifi: wl1251: fix memory leak in wl1251_tx_work

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.1

CVSS 3.1

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Published · May 20, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

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

wifi: wl1251: fix memory leak in wl1251_tx_work

The skb dequeued from tx_queue is lost when wl1251_ps_elp_wakeup fails with a -ETIMEDOUT error. Fix that by queueing the skb back to tx_queue.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 6.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

CWE-771 · Missing Reference to Active Allocated Resource