ghsa-q529-wqg7-hj25
Vulnerability from github
Published
2025-06-18 12:30
Modified
2025-11-17 21:31
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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 simple_write_to_buffer() with memdup_user() but it forgets to change the value to be returned that came from simple_write_to_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.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2022-50165"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-908"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-06-18T11:15:46Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: wil6210: debugfs: fix uninitialized variable use in `wil_write_file_wmi()`\n\nCommit 7a4836560a61 changes simple_write_to_buffer() with memdup_user()\nbut it forgets to change the value to be returned that came from\nsimple_write_to_buffer() call. It results in the following warning:\n\n  warning: variable \u0027rc\u0027 is uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized]\n           return rc;\n                  ^~\n\nRemove rc variable and just return the passed in length if the\nmemdup_user() succeeds.",
  "id": "GHSA-q529-wqg7-hj25",
  "modified": "2025-11-17T21:31:18Z",
  "published": "2025-06-18T12:30:52Z",
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