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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.5 Medium

CVE-2025-39890

wifi: ath12k: fix memory leak in ath12k_service_ready_ext_event

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath12k: fix memory leak in ath12k_service_ready_ext_event Currently, in ath12k_service_ready_ext_event(), svc_rdy_ext.mac_phy_caps is not freed in the failure case, causing a memory leak. The following trace is observed in kmemleak: unreferenced object 0xffff8b3eb5789c00 (size 1024): comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294942577 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 7b 00 00 10 ............{... 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 1f 38 00 00 .............8.. backtrace (crc 44e1c357): __kmalloc_noprof+0x30b/0x410 ath12k_wmi_mac_phy_caps_parse+0x84/0x100 [ath12k] ath12k_wmi_tlv_iter+0x5e/0x140 [ath12k] ath12k_wmi_svc_rdy_ext_parse+0x308/0x4c0 [ath12k] ath12k_wmi_tlv_iter+0x5e/0x140 [ath12k] ath12k_service_ready_ext_event.isra.0+0x44/0xd0 [ath12k] ath12k_wmi_op_rx+0x2eb/0xd70 [ath12k] ath12k_htc_rx_completion_handler+0x1f4/0x330 [ath12k] ath12k_ce_recv_process_cb+0x218/0x300 [ath12k] ath12k_pci_ce_workqueue+0x1b/0x30 [ath12k] process_one_work+0x219/0x680 bh_worker+0x198/0x1f0 tasklet_action+0x13/0x30 handle_softirqs+0xca/0x460 __irq_exit_rcu+0xbe/0x110 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 Free svc_rdy_ext.mac_phy_caps in the error case to fix this memory leak. Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.4.1-00199-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • d889913205cf7ebda905b1e62c5867ed4e39f6c2 to < 99dbad1b01d3b2f361a9db55c1af1212be497a3daffected
  • d889913205cf7ebda905b1e62c5867ed4e39f6c2 to < 3a392f874ac83a77ad0e53eb8aafdbeb787c9298affected
  • d889913205cf7ebda905b1e62c5867ed4e39f6c2 to < 1089f65b2de78c7837ef6b4f26146a5a5b0b9749affected
  • d889913205cf7ebda905b1e62c5867ed4e39f6c2 to < 89142d34d5602c7447827beb181fa06eb08b9d5caffected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 6.3affected
  • 0 to < 6.3unaffected
  • 6.6.94 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.34 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.15.3 to ≤ 6.15.*unaffected
  • 6.16 to ≤ *unaffected

References