# 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-2026-80948"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:42:19.048Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:47:18.829Z"
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-2026-80948"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80948.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80948"
title: "wifi: iwlwifi: dvm: fix memory leak in iwl_op_mode_dvm_start()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: iwlwifi: dvm: fix memory leak in iwl_op_mode_dvm_start()\n\nIn iwl_op_mode_dvm_start(), jumping to out_free_eeprom currently bypasses\nthe out_free_eeprom_blob label. Consequently, error paths triggered after\nsuccessfully parsing the EEPROM free priv-\u003envm_data but leak\npriv-\u003eeeprom_blob.\n\nFix this memory leak by reordering the error handling labels so\nthat out_free_eeprom falls through to out_free_eeprom_blob.\n\nThe bug was first flagged by an experimental analysis tool we are\ndeveloping for kernel memory-management bugs while analyzing\nv6.13-rc1. The tool is still under development and is not yet publicly\navailable. Manual inspection confirms that the bug is still\npresent in v7.1-rc6.\n\nAn x86_64 allyesconfig build showed no new warnings. As we do not have\nsupported Intel DVM wireless hardware and firmware to test with, no\nruntime testing was able to be performed."
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