CVE-2022-50165

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50165
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50165.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-50165
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-06-18T11:03:19.539Z
Modified
2026-05-18T05:55:18.792789850Z
Summary
wifi: wil6210: debugfs: fix uninitialized variable use in `wil_write_file_wmi()`
Details

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 simplewritetobuffer() with memdupuser() but it forgets to change the value to be returned that came from simplewriteto_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.

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/50xxx/CVE-2022-50165.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
ff974e4083341383d3dd4079e52ed30f57f376f0
Fixed
b13c84e877d7a3095bacb14665db304b2c00e95f
Fixed
c9fde3a44da566d8929070ab6bda4f0dfa9955d0
Fixed
52b11a48cf073e0aab923ae809a765d756cecf13
Fixed
6c5fee83bdbeffe8d607d1ab125122a75f40bd1a
Fixed
689e5caf63e99e15d2f485ec297c1bf9243e0e28
Fixed
d4742c886043b69d2d058bfde3998ef333b66595
Fixed
409bd72e544fdf4809ea0dac337bb5a1f11a25a9
Fixed
d578e0af3a003736f6c440188b156483d451b329

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50165.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
3.17.0
Fixed
4.14.291
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.15.0
Fixed
4.19.256
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.20.0
Fixed
5.4.211
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.137
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.61
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
5.18.18
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.19.0
Fixed
5.19.2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50165.json"