Bug 2153055 (CVE-2022-3110)

Summary:	CVE-2022-3110 kernel: r8188eu: NULL pointer dereference in rtw_alloc_hwxmits()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Sage McTaggart <amctagga>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	acaringi, allarkin, bhu, chwhite, crwood, dbohanno, ddepaula, debarbos, dfreiber, dvlasenk, ezulian, hkrzesin, jarod, jburrell, jdenham, jfaracco, jferlan, jforbes, jlelli, joe.lawrence, jshortt, jstancek, jwyatt, kcarcia, kernel-mgr, ldoskova, lgoncalv, lleshchi, lzampier, mcascell, nmurray, ptalbert, qzhao, rogbas, rrobaina, rvrbovsk, rysulliv, scweaver, tyberry, vkumar, walters, wcosta, williams, wmealing, ycote
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	kernel 5.19-rc1	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed:	2023-06-12 19:01:01 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	2153051

Description Sage McTaggart 2022-12-13 21:56:19 UTC

[Suggested 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.

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[VulnerabilityType Other]
NULL Pointer Dereference

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[Vendor of Product]
the development group

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[Affected Product Code Base]
Linux kernel - 5.16-rc6

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

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[Discoverer]
Jiasheng Jiang

Comment 4 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2023-06-12 08:35:04 UTC

Upstream commit:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f94b47c6bde624d6c07f43054087607c52054a95

Comment 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-06-12 19:00:57 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2022-3110