CVE-2022-50165

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50165
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Published
2025-06-18T11:15:46Z
Modified
2025-06-18T16:48:52.469202Z
Downstream
Summary
[none]
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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.10.140-1

Affected versions

5.*

5.10.46-4
5.10.46-5
5.10.70-1~bpo10+1
5.10.70-1
5.10.84-1
5.10.92-1~bpo10+1
5.10.92-1
5.10.92-2
5.10.103-1~bpo10+1
5.10.103-1
5.10.106-1
5.10.113-1
5.10.120-1~bpo10+1
5.10.120-1
5.10.127-1
5.10.127-2~bpo10+1
5.10.127-2
5.10.136-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.0.2-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.0.2-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}