CVE - CVE-2022-50165

CVE-ID
CVE-2022-50165	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/409bd72e544fdf4809ea0dac337bb5a1f11a25a9 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/409bd72e544fdf4809ea0dac337bb5a1f11a25a9 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52b11a48cf073e0aab923ae809a765d756cecf13 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52b11a48cf073e0aab923ae809a765d756cecf13 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/689e5caf63e99e15d2f485ec297c1bf9243e0e28 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/689e5caf63e99e15d2f485ec297c1bf9243e0e28 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c5fee83bdbeffe8d607d1ab125122a75f40bd1a URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c5fee83bdbeffe8d607d1ab125122a75f40bd1a MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b13c84e877d7a3095bacb14665db304b2c00e95f URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b13c84e877d7a3095bacb14665db304b2c00e95f MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9fde3a44da566d8929070ab6bda4f0dfa9955d0 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9fde3a44da566d8929070ab6bda4f0dfa9955d0 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4742c886043b69d2d058bfde3998ef333b66595 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4742c886043b69d2d058bfde3998ef333b66595 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d578e0af3a003736f6c440188b156483d451b329 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d578e0af3a003736f6c440188b156483d451b329
Assigning CNA
kernel.org
Date Record Created
20250618	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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Assigned (20250618)
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