CVE-2026-43159

medium Red Hat
Published: May 6, 2026 (8 days ago)
Last Modified: May 6, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Source: REDHAT

Description

A flaw was found in the rtl8723bs Wi-Fi driver within the Linux kernel. This vulnerability occurs when a pointer, pwlan, can become null before being used in the rtw_free_network_nolock() function, leading to a null pointer dereference. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a system crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).

CWE

CWE-476

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov 🔗 lore.kernel.org