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FKIE_CVE-2022-3110

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-12-14 21:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:58
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2153055Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.19-rc2&id=f94b47c6bde624d6c07f43054087607c52054a95Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2153055Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.19-rc2&id=f94b47c6bde624d6c07f43054087607c52054a95Patch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 5.16.0
linux linux_kernel 5.16.0
linux linux_kernel 5.16.0
linux linux_kernel 5.16.0
linux linux_kernel 5.16.0
linux linux_kernel 5.16.0
linux linux_kernel 5.16.0
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