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high7.1

CVE-2022-50169

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wil6210: debugfs: fix info leak in wil_write_file_wmi() The simple_write_to_buffer() …

Impact

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wil6210: debugfs: fix info leak in wil_write_file_wmi() The simple_write_to_buffer() function will succeed if even a single byte is initialized. However, we need to initialize the whole buffer to prevent information leaks. Just use memdup_user().

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 3.17 before 4.14.291
from 4.15 before 4.19.256
from 4.20 before 5.4.211
from 5.5 before 5.10.137
from 5.11 before 5.15.61
from 5.16 before 5.18.18

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