{"id":75500,"date":"2026-01-05T13:02:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-68759-wifi-rtl818x-fix-potential-memory-leaks-in-rtl8180_init_rx_ring\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:02:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:32:32","slug":"cve-2025-68759-wifi-rtl818x-fix-potential-memory-leaks-in-rtl8180_init_rx_ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-68759-wifi-rtl818x-fix-potential-memory-leaks-in-rtl8180_init_rx_ring\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-68759 &#8211; wifi: rtl818x: Fix potential memory leaks in rtl8180_init_rx_ring()"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-68759<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Jan. 5, 2026, 9:32 a.m. | 53\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>wifi: rtl818x: Fix potential memory leaks in rtl8180_init_rx_ring()<\/p>\n<p>In rtl8180_init_rx_ring(), memory is allocated for skb packets and DMA<br \/>\nallocations in a loop. When an allocation fails, the previously<br \/>\nsuccessful allocations are not freed on exit.<\/p>\n<p>Fix that by jumping to err_free_rings label on error, which calls<br \/>\nrtl8180_free_rx_ring() to free the allocations. Remove the free of<br \/>\nrx_ring in rtl8180_init_rx_ring() error path, and set the freed<br \/>\npriv-&gt;rx_buf entry to null, to avoid double free.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 0.0 | NA<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-68759 Published : Jan. 5, 2026, 9:32 a.m. | 53\u00a0minutes ago Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtl818x: Fix potential memory leaks in rtl8180_init_rx_ring() In rtl8180_init_rx_ring(), memory is allocated for skb packets and DMA allocations in a loop. When an allocation fails, the previously successful &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}