CVE-2022-50361 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer DereferenceCWE-459 — Incomplete Cleanup6 documents6 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.72%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
5
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux+2 more
Timeline
PublishedSep 17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wilc1000: add missing unregister_netdev() in wilc_netdev_ifc_init() Fault injection test reports this issue: kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:10731! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI Call Trace: wilc_netdev_ifc_init+0x19f/0x220 [wilc1000 884bf126e9e98af6a708f266a8dffd53f99e4bf5] wilc_cfg80211_init+0x30c/0x380 [wilc1000 884bf126e9e98af6a708f266a8dffd53f99e4bf5] wilc_bus_probe+0xad/0x2b0 [wilc1000_spi 1520a7539…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages6 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel5.17 — 6.1.16+1
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.1.20-1+2
▶CVEListV5linux/linux09ed8bfc5215ad5aac91c50008277b5586b9ef24 — a1bdecedc7ad0512365267cd1a26bfc2ae455c59+3
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.20-1 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
CVE-2022-50361: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wilc1000: add missing unregister_netdev() in wilc_netdev_ifc_init() Fault in↗2025-09-17
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GHSA
GHSA-h5ff-9294-whpm: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wilc1000: add missing unregister_netdev() in wilc_netdev_ifc_init() Fault↗2025-09-17
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: wifi: wilc1000: add missing unregister_netdev() in wilc_netdev_ifc_init()↗2025-09-17
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Debian
CVE-2022-50361: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wilc1...↗2022
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