# 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-2026-98160"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T13:06:50.521Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:14:53.943Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-98160"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98160.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98160"
title: "staging: rtl8723bs: fix mismatched free of HalData in rtw_sdio_if1_init()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nstaging: rtl8723bs: fix mismatched free of HalData in rtw_sdio_if1_init()\n\npadapter-\u003eHalData is allocated via vzalloc(), but incorrectly freed\nusing kfree() in the rtw_sdio_if1_init() error path. Using kfree() to\nrelease this vmalloc-backed buffer can lead to memory corruption.\n\nUse rtw_hal_data_deinit() to pair the free correctly and free\nHalData with vfree().\n\nThe bug was first flagged by an experimental static analysis tool we\nare developing for kernel memory-management bugs. Manual inspection\nconfirms that the issue is still present in current mainline.\n\nAn x86_64 allyesconfig build showed no new warnings. As we do not have\nsuitable RTL8723BS SDIO hardware to test with, no runtime testing was\nable to be performed."
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