CVE detail

CVE-2022-49298 — CVE-2022-49298

Published 2025-02-26 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor linux · Product linux_kernel · Source nvd

MEDIUM

severity

CVSS-derived band

5.5

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0026

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

18.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: rtl8712: fix uninit-value in r871xu_drv_init() When 'tmpU1b' returns from r8712_read8(padapter, EE_9346CR) is 0, 'mac[6]' will not be initialized. BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in r871xu_drv_init+0x2d54/0x3070 drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c:541 r871xu_drv_init+0x2d54/0x3070 drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c:541 usb_probe_interface+0xf19/0x1600 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396 really_probe+0x653/0x14b0 drivers/base/dd.c:596 __driver_probe_device+0x3e9/0x530 drivers/base/dd.c:752 driver_probe_device drivers/base/dd.c:782 [inline] __device_attach_driver+0x79f/0x1120 drivers/base/dd.c:899 bus_for_each_drv+0x2d6/0x3f0 drivers/base/bus.c:427 __device_attach+0x593/0x8e0 drivers/base/dd.c:970 device_initial_probe

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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