# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49312"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:10:41.627Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:57:15.332Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49312"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49312.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49312"
title: "staging: rtl8712: fix a potential memory leak in r871xu_drv_init()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nstaging: rtl8712: fix a potential memory leak in r871xu_drv_init()\n\nIn r871xu_drv_init(), if r8712_init_drv_sw() fails, then the memory\nallocated by r8712_alloc_io_queue() in r8712_usb_dvobj_init() is not\nproperly released as there is no action will be performed by\nr8712_usb_dvobj_deinit().\nTo properly release it, we should call r8712_free_io_queue() in\nr8712_usb_dvobj_deinit().\n\nBesides, in r871xu_dev_remove(), r8712_usb_dvobj_deinit() will be called\nby r871x_dev_unload() under condition `padapter-\u003ebup` and\nr8712_free_io_queue() is called by r8712_free_drv_sw().\nHowever, r8712_usb_dvobj_deinit() does not rely on `padapter-\u003ebup` and\ncalling r8712_free_io_queue() in r8712_free_drv_sw() is negative for\nbetter understading the code.\nSo I move r8712_usb_dvobj_deinit() into r871xu_dev_remove(), and remove\nr8712_free_io_queue() from r8712_free_drv_sw()."
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