Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Dec 14, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2022-3110
CVE-2022-3110
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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Affected products
2- Range: <= 5.16-rc6
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References
2- git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
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