CVE-2022-50169

HIGH

Linux Kernel < 4.14.291 - Information Disclosure

Title source: rule

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wil6210: debugfs: fix info leak in wil_write_file_wmi() The simple_write_to_buffer() function will succeed if even a single byte is initialized. However, we need to initialize the whole buffer to prevent information leaks. Just use memdup_user().

References (8)

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05ceda14ef7c73104e709c414c3680d8a59f51d4

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/074e865b37da55aa87baa16d68b96896f85f8adb

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4615458db7793fadc6d546ac3564b36819e77a22

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60c9983425167ec5073c628d83a6875760d18059

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67470920cd3f3cb38699b1ad23234f96bead4d21

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/789edc1af9c1a2293956e8534bfef3d18d629de9

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a4836560a6198d245d5732e26f94898b12eb760

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1216e699a1ce83ea005510844bd7508d34c6cef

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1

EPSS 0.0002

EPSS Percentile 5.5%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-909

Status published

Affected Products (8)

linux/linux_kernel < 4.14.291

linux/Kernel < 4.14.291linux

linux/Kernel < 4.19.256linux

linux/Kernel < 5.4.211linux

linux/Kernel < 5.10.137linux

linux/Kernel < 5.15.61linux

linux/Kernel < 5.18.18linux

linux/Kernel < 5.19.2linux

Timeline

Published Jun 18, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026