Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: wil6210: debugfs: fix uninitialized variable use in wil_write_file_wmi()
Commit 7a4836560a61 changes simple_write_to_buffer() with memdup_user() but it forgets to change the value to be returned that came from simple_write_to_buffer() call. It results in the following warning:
warning: variable ‘rc’ is uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized] return rc; ^~
Remove rc variable and just return the passed in length if the memdup_user() succeeds.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 4.18.0 (+9 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: wil6210: debugfs: fix uninitialized variable use in wil_write_file_wmi()
Commit 7a4836560a61 changes simple_write_to_buffer() with memdup_user() but it forgets to change the value to be returned that came from simple_write_to_buffer() call. It results in the following warning:
warning: variable ‘rc’ is uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized] return rc; ^~
Remove rc variable and just return the passed in length if the memdup_user() succeeds.