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CVE-2022-3110 (GCVE-0-2022-3110)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-14 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-22 14:12
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6. _rtw_init_xmit_priv in drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c lacks check of the return value of rtw_alloc_hwxmits() and will cause the null pointer dereference.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-22 14:12 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a Kernel Affected: Linux 5.16-rc6
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