Bug 2373473 (CVE-2022-50165)

Summary: CVE-2022-50165 kernel: wifi: wil6210: debugfs: fix uninitialized variable use in `wil_write_file_wmi()`
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 12:04:35 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-20 02:02:11 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061827-CVE-2022-50165-1495@gregkh/T