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GHSA-M5JX-7MGF-Q66F

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-10-21 12:31 – Updated: 2025-10-21 12:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

staging: r8188eu: prevent ->Ssid overflow in rtw_wx_set_scan()

This code has a check to prevent read overflow but it needs another check to prevent writing beyond the end of the ->Ssid[] array.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2022-49405 (GCVE-0-2022-49405)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 02:12 – Updated: 2026-05-11 18:59

Title

staging: r8188eu: prevent ->Ssid overflow in rtw_wx_set_scan()

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: r8188eu: prevent ->Ssid overflow in rtw_wx_set_scan() This code has a check to prevent read overflow but it needs another check to prevent writing beyond the end of the ->Ssid[] array.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac2eab7de458f5e12…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4bd6b72df4f01aa8…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/476bfda0be0f9669a…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc10916e890948d89…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 2b42bd58b32155a1be4dd78991845dec05aaef9e , < ac2eab7de458f5e1210ce1237afab40a307075c8 (git) Affected: 2b42bd58b32155a1be4dd78991845dec05aaef9e , < c4bd6b72df4f01aa866ceb298466d6d07a6bd525 (git) Affected: 2b42bd58b32155a1be4dd78991845dec05aaef9e , < 476bfda0be0f9669add92bff604ca78226cf53d1 (git) Affected: 2b42bd58b32155a1be4dd78991845dec05aaef9e , < bc10916e890948d8927a5c8c40fb5dc44be5e1b8 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.15 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.46 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.17.14 , ≤ 5.17.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.18.3 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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