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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-54001"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-24T10:55:36.991Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:53:22.247Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
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-2023-54001"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54001.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54001"
title: "staging: r8712: Fix memory leak in _r8712_init_xmit_priv()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nstaging: r8712: Fix memory leak in _r8712_init_xmit_priv()\n\nIn the above mentioned routine, memory is allocated in several places.\nIf the first succeeds and a later one fails, the routine will leak memory.\nThis patch fixes commit 2865d42c78a9 (\"staging: r8712u: Add the new driver\nto the mainline kernel\"). A potential memory leak in\nr8712_xmit_resource_alloc() is also addressed."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2865d42c78a9121caad52cb02d1fbb7f5cdbc4ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fc511ae405f7ba29fbcb0246061ec15c272386e1"},{"version":"2865d42c78a9121caad52cb02d1fbb7f5cdbc4ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"acacdbe0f740ca8c5d5da73d50870903a3ded677"},{"version":"2865d42c78a9121caad52cb02d1fbb7f5cdbc4ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"41e05572e871b10dbdc168c76175c97982daf4a4"},{"version":"2865d42c78a9121caad52cb02d1fbb7f5cdbc4ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"874555472c736813ba1f4baf0b4c09c8e26d81ea"},{"version":"2865d42c78a9121caad52cb02d1fbb7f5cdbc4ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ac83631230f77dda94154ed0ebfd368fc81c70a3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.37","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.37"},{"version":"5.10.190","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.124","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.43","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.4.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*"},{"version":"6.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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