CVE-2022-3110CWE-476

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6

Medium · published December 14, 2022

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
13.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00233 · 13.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2022-12-14T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 DEC 00:00Z
    An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6
    cvelistv5