CVE-2026-98160 is a vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Published on September 25, 2026
staging: rtl8723bs: fix mismatched free of HalData in rtw_sdio_if1_init()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
staging: rtl8723bs: fix mismatched free of HalData in rtw_sdio_if1_init()
padapter->HalData is allocated via vzalloc(), but incorrectly freed
using kfree() in the rtw_sdio_if1_init() error path. Using kfree() to
release this vmalloc-backed buffer can lead to memory corruption.
Use rtw_hal_data_deinit() to pair the free correctly and free
HalData with vfree().
The bug was first flagged by an experimental static analysis tool we
are developing for kernel memory-management bugs. Manual inspection
confirms that the issue is still present in current mainline.
An x86_64 allyesconfig build showed no new warnings. As we do not have
suitable RTL8723BS SDIO hardware to test with, no runtime testing was
able to be performed.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-98160
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Affected Versions
Linux:- Version 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b and below ff6d1ba247b5c62bdb678f1069abc86ad88a1402 is affected.
- Version 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b and below d6158333d630a1b21d8914feaf77a6f5deb185d9 is affected.
- Version 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b and below 6c017ab2b0e1b60b5be94636c94720347213d78b is affected.
- Version 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b and below 4520d673d49dabfd42c008a33889251025f7d6d5 is affected.
- Version 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b and below 423574feaed192063ef0cd0813fb85425f39e539 is affected.
- Version 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b and below 737c928ff5092d7e55128a232c231248fc993777 is affected.
- Version 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b and below 911190f0b9511c3c81f2f2484414c1ae26f636b3 is affected.
- Version 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b and below 264676418b726baca7be49171e306b6aa05cceb0 is affected.
- Version 4.12 is affected.
- Before 4.12 is unaffected.
- Version 5.10.270, <= 5.10.* is unaffected.
- Version 5.15.221, <= 5.15.* is unaffected.
- Version 6.1.188, <= 6.1.* is unaffected.
- Version 6.6.157, <= 6.6.* is unaffected.
- Version 6.12.110, <= 6.12.* is unaffected.
- Version 6.18.52, <= 6.18.* is unaffected.
- Version 7.2.6, <= 7.2.* is unaffected.
- Version 7.3-rc1, <= * is unaffected.