# 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-2026-80942"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:42:14.589Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:45:26.138Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-80942"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80942.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80942"
title: "wifi: rtlwifi: rtl8192du: Fix possible memory leak in rtl92du_init_sw_vars()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: rtlwifi: rtl8192du: Fix possible memory leak in rtl92du_init_sw_vars()\n\nThe memory allocated inside rtl92du_init_shared_data() is not freed in\nany of the subsequent error paths in rtl92du_init_sw_vars().\nFix that by adding a call to rtl92du_deinit_shared_data() in the error\npath."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b5dc8873b6ffebd331e46814e537179eac8b6aa4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3a5b23e7dbeb00c93ec3b8add97f5de9bb9cbb5c"},{"version":"b5dc8873b6ffebd331e46814e537179eac8b6aa4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dc8b0be0ec4d9b0c80f07b27e656e4a94de5a344"},{"version":"b5dc8873b6ffebd331e46814e537179eac8b6aa4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7159e1e12468a0b1ac519b296280c0a27f91eab5"},{"version":"b5dc8873b6ffebd331e46814e537179eac8b6aa4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6496ce90845df2d22fb8e8ed235cd2936fad41c8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"},{"version":"6.12.109","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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