CVE-2022-3110 Information

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.

Reference

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2153055 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.19-rc2&id=f94b47c6bde624d6c07f43054087607c52054a95