CVE-2022-3110

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 5.16.0 - NULL Pointer Dereference in rtw_init_xmit_priv

Title source: llm

Description

An 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.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2153055

Patch, Vendor Advisory

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.19-rc2&id=f94b47c6bde624d6c07f43054087607c52054a95

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0022

EPSS Percentile 13.0%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-476

Status published

Products (2)

linux/linux_kernel 5.16.0 (7 CPE variants)

linux/linux_kernel < 5.16.0

Published Dec 14, 2022

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026