CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedThe vulnerability affects the Linux kernel's ipw2100 driver, where a potential memory leak occurs due to allocated memory not being freed in certain error paths during device initialization. This could lead to increased memory consumption, potentially impacting system stability and performance. Organizations using affected Linux distributions, particularly those relying on the ipw2100 wireless driver, should prioritize addressing this issue to prevent resource exhaustion.
Original NVD Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ipw2100: fix potential memory leak in ipw2100_pci_init_one() The memory allocated in the ipw2100_alloc_device() function is not freed in some of the error paths in ipw2100_pci_init_one(). Fix that by converting the direct return into a goto to the error path return. The error path when pci_enable_device() fails cannot jump to fail, since at this point priv is not set, so perform error handling inline.