CVE-2022-50784 (GCVE-0-2022-50784)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:03 – Updated: 2025-12-30 12:03
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Title
wifi: iwlwifi: mei: fix potential NULL-ptr deref after clone
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mei: fix potential NULL-ptr deref after clone If cloning the SKB fails, don't try to use it, but rather return as if we should pass it. Coverity CID: 1503456
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Linux Linux Affected: 2da4366f9e2c44afedec4acad65a99a3c7da1a35 , < 8b8e25073f3dab93554ee3d5b264f7c013ebd92a (git)
Affected: 2da4366f9e2c44afedec4acad65a99a3c7da1a35 , < 0183b7c49cfdda91284505cbcdc7feecde48cbb9 (git)
Affected: 2da4366f9e2c44afedec4acad65a99a3c7da1a35 , < d3df49dda431f7ae4132a9a0ac25a5134c04e812 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.16 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.2 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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