CVE-2022-50165 | THREATINT

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

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-06-18 | Published 2025-06-18 | Updated 2025-06-18 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status

unaffected

ff974e4083341383d3dd4079e52ed30f57f376f0 (git) before b13c84e877d7a3095bacb14665db304b2c00e95f

affected

ff974e4083341383d3dd4079e52ed30f57f376f0 (git) before c9fde3a44da566d8929070ab6bda4f0dfa9955d0

affected

ff974e4083341383d3dd4079e52ed30f57f376f0 (git) before 52b11a48cf073e0aab923ae809a765d756cecf13

affected

ff974e4083341383d3dd4079e52ed30f57f376f0 (git) before 6c5fee83bdbeffe8d607d1ab125122a75f40bd1a

affected

ff974e4083341383d3dd4079e52ed30f57f376f0 (git) before 689e5caf63e99e15d2f485ec297c1bf9243e0e28

affected

ff974e4083341383d3dd4079e52ed30f57f376f0 (git) before d4742c886043b69d2d058bfde3998ef333b66595

affected

ff974e4083341383d3dd4079e52ed30f57f376f0 (git) before 409bd72e544fdf4809ea0dac337bb5a1f11a25a9

affected

ff974e4083341383d3dd4079e52ed30f57f376f0 (git) before d578e0af3a003736f6c440188b156483d451b329

affected

Default status

affected

3.17

affected

Any version before 3.17

unaffected

4.14.291 (semver)

unaffected

4.19.256 (semver)

unaffected

5.4.211 (semver)

unaffected

5.10.137 (semver)

unaffected

5.15.61 (semver)

unaffected

5.18.18 (semver)

unaffected

5.19.2 (semver)

unaffected

6.0 (original_commit_for_fix)

unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/b13c84e877d7a3095bacb14665db304b2c00e95f

git.kernel.org/...c/c9fde3a44da566d8929070ab6bda4f0dfa9955d0

git.kernel.org/...c/52b11a48cf073e0aab923ae809a765d756cecf13

git.kernel.org/...c/6c5fee83bdbeffe8d607d1ab125122a75f40bd1a

git.kernel.org/...c/689e5caf63e99e15d2f485ec297c1bf9243e0e28

git.kernel.org/...c/d4742c886043b69d2d058bfde3998ef333b66595

git.kernel.org/...c/409bd72e544fdf4809ea0dac337bb5a1f11a25a9

git.kernel.org/...c/d578e0af3a003736f6c440188b156483d451b329

cve.org (CVE-2022-50165)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2022-50165)

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