CVE-2022-3110

Summary

CVECVE-2022-3110
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-12-14 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-12-16 21:40:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6. _rtw_init_xmit_priv in drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c lacks check of the return value of rtw_alloc_hwxmits() and will cause the null pointer dereference.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.16.0 - All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.16.0 rc1 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.16.0 rc2 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.16.0 rc3 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.16.0 rc4 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.16.0 rc5 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.16.0 rc6 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MISC git.kernel.org
2153055 – (CVE-2022-3110) CVE-2022-3110 Kernel: Unchecked rtw_alloc_hwxmits return leads to null pointer dereference. MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 183795 Debian Security Update for linux (CVE-2022-3110)
  • 904692 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (11635)
  • 904697 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (11610)
  • 906357 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (11610-2)
  • 906719 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (11635-1)

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