Security advisory

{
  "id": "62e87fc9889216071e2730dd474f940f183a0ab2310ab693920272331f32a040",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-3110",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2022-3110",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6. _rtw_init_xmit_priv in drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c lacks check of the return value of rtw_alloc_hwxmits() and will cause the null pointer dereference.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-3110",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2022-3110",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2022-3110"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "a7904a538933c525096ca2ccde1e60d0ee62c08e"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "a7904a538933c525096ca2ccde1e60d0ee62c08e"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "Linux 5.16-rc6"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "Linux 5.16-rc6"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                    "strategy": "StandaloneSingleVersion"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "Linux 5.16-rc6",
            "v5.16-rc6"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-3110.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:21.828869498Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.19-rc2&id=f94b47c6bde624d6c07f43054087607c52054a95",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/3xxx/CVE-2022-3110.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3110",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2153055"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-476"
        ],
        "cna_assigner": "redhat",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/3xxx/CVE-2022-3110.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2022-3110",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 488097,
  "published_at": "2022-12-14T00:00:00+00:00"
}