CVE-2022-50165
wifi: wil6210: debugfs: fix uninitialized variable use in `wil_write_file_wmi()`
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Public Exploits
0Exploited in Wild
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Descriptions
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.
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.
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Timeline
- 2025-06-18 CVE Reserved
- 2025-06-18 CVE Published
- 2025-06-18 CVE Updated
- 2025-06-24 EPSS Updated
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References (9)
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| https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff974e4083341383d3dd4079e52ed30f57f376f0 | Vuln. Introduced |
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| Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 3.17 < 4.14.291 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 3.17 < 4.14.291" | en |
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| Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 3.17 < 4.19.256 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 3.17 < 4.19.256" | en |
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| Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 3.17 < 5.4.211 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 3.17 < 5.4.211" | en |
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| Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 3.17 < 5.10.137 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 3.17 < 5.10.137" | en |
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| Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 3.17 < 5.15.61 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 3.17 < 5.15.61" | en |
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| Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 3.17 < 5.18.18 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 3.17 < 5.18.18" | en |
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| Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 3.17 < 5.19.2 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 3.17 < 5.19.2" | en |
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| Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 3.17 < 6.0 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 3.17 < 6.0" | en |
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