CVE-2022-50832

high

Published 2023-11-07 · Modified 2023-11-07

CVSS v3

—

CVSS v2

—

VIR risk

8.0

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wilc1000: fix potential memory leak in wilc_mac_xmit() The wilc_mac_xmit() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb, add dev_kfree_skb() to fix it. Compile tested only.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-50832

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50832.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: redhat — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6583

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
rhel	9	fixed
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`6.1.20-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`5.10.178-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`6.1.20-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`6.1.20-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`6.1.20-1`

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.