CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50165
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-06-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-908
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: wil6210: debugfs: fix uninitialized variable use in `wil_write_file_wmi()`
Commit 7a4836560a61 changes simple_write_to_buffer() with memdup_user()
but it forgets to change the value to be returned that came from
simple_write_to_buffer() call. It results in the following warning:
warning: variable 'rc' is uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized]
return rc;
^~
Remove rc variable and just return the passed in length if the
memdup_user() succeeds.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 4.14.291)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.256)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.211)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.137)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.61)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.18.18)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.19 < 5.19.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/409bd72e544fdf4809ea0dac337bb5a1f11a25a9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52b11a48cf073e0aab923ae809a765d756cecf13 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/689e5caf63e99e15d2f485ec297c1bf9243e0e28 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c5fee83bdbeffe8d607d1ab125122a75f40bd1a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b13c84e877d7a3095bacb14665db304b2c00e95f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9fde3a44da566d8929070ab6bda4f0dfa9955d0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4742c886043b69d2d058bfde3998ef333b66595 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d578e0af3a003736f6c440188b156483d451b329 Patch