CVE-2026-68410
No CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: libertas: fix memory leak in helper_firmware_cb()
helper_firmware_cb() neglects to free the single-stage firmware image
after a successful async load, leading to a memory leak in the USB
firmware-download path.
Fix this memory leak by calling release_firmware() immediately after
lbs_fw_loaded() returns.
The bug was first flagged by an experimental analysis tool we are
developing for kernel memory-management bugs while analyzing
v6.13-rc1. The tool is still under development and is not yet publicly
available. Manual inspection confirms that the bug is still present in
the current wireless tree.
An x86_64 allyesconfig build showed no new warnings. As we do not have
compatible Libertas USB hardware for exercising this firmware-download
path, no runtime testing was able to be performed.
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 12% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63c2391deefb31e1b801b7f32bd502ca4808639b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/644640cde2fb216e6567de5eee780a38dbc95928
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c1f54a04813676c5a2150d99331c8d21f199374
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6cda91bbb8dc3d22ef0323008a12dcf73a5129da
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f28722b3e4e0c8d49c859fea4a9b1fa13b5ae06