CVE-2022-50165

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

18/06/2025

Last modified:

17/11/2025

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 &#39;rc&#39; is uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized] return rc; ^~ Remove rc variable and just return the passed in length if the memdup_user() succeeds.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.17 (including)	4.14.291 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.15 (including)	4.19.256 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.20 (including)	5.4.211 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.137 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.61 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	5.18.18 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.19 (including)	5.19.2 (excluding)

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CVE-2022-50165

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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