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      "value": "En el kernel de Linux, se ha resuelto la siguiente vulnerabilidad: wifi: cfg80211: se corrige una fuga de memoria en query_regdb_file(). En la funci\u00f3n query_regdb_file(), el par\u00e1metro alpha2 se duplica mediante kmemdup() y posteriormente se libera en regdb_fw_cb(). Sin embargo, request_firmware_nowait() puede fallar sin llamar a regdb_fw_cb() y, por lo tanto, provocar una fuga de memoria."
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