CVE-2022-50165

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50165
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50165.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-50165
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-06-18T11:03:19.539Z
Modified
2026-04-02T17:29:44.213463764Z
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/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50165.json"