CVE-2022-50165
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
18/06/2025
Last modified:
18/06/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
wifi: wil6210: debugfs: fix uninitialized variable use in `wil_write_file_wmi()`<br />
<br />
Commit 7a4836560a61 changes simple_write_to_buffer() with memdup_user()<br />
but it forgets to change the value to be returned that came from<br />
simple_write_to_buffer() call. It results in the following warning:<br />
<br />
warning: variable &#39;rc&#39; is uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized]<br />
return rc;<br />
^~<br />
<br />
Remove rc variable and just return the passed in length if the<br />
memdup_user() succeeds.
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/409bd72e544fdf4809ea0dac337bb5a1f11a25a9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52b11a48cf073e0aab923ae809a765d756cecf13
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/689e5caf63e99e15d2f485ec297c1bf9243e0e28
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c5fee83bdbeffe8d607d1ab125122a75f40bd1a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b13c84e877d7a3095bacb14665db304b2c00e95f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9fde3a44da566d8929070ab6bda4f0dfa9955d0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4742c886043b69d2d058bfde3998ef333b66595
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d578e0af3a003736f6c440188b156483d451b329