Memory Leak and Denial of Service Vulnerability in mwifiex_tm_cmd in Linux Kernel

Memory Leak and Denial of Service Vulnerability in mwifiex_tm_cmd in Linux Kernel

CVE-2019-20095 · MEDIUM Severity

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

mwifiex_tm_cmd in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c in the Linux kernel before 5.1.6 has some error-handling cases that did not free allocated hostcmd memory, aka CID-003b686ace82. This will cause a memory leak and denial of service.

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