CVE-2022-50660 json
wifi: ipw2200: fix memory leak in ipw_wdev_init()
published 2025-12-09 11 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-55745
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.3%
- EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 16%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ipw2200: fix memory leak in ipw_wdev_init()
In the error path of ipw_wdev_init(), exception value is returned, and the memory applied for in the function is not released. Also the memory is not released in ipw_pci_probe(). As a result, memory leakage occurs. So memory release needs to be added to the error path of ipw_wdev_init().
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 4.14.308, 4.19.276, 5.4.235, 5.10.173, 5.15.99, 6.1.16, 6.2.3, 6.3
- linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 6.1.20-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50660
- linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-152.169
- linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-75.82
- linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1104.112
- linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1038.43
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1107.116
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1036.44
- linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1036.41
- linux-ibm Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1051.56
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50660
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- kernel-64kb SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-syms SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-source SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-default SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +5 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-obs-build SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-default-base SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +3 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1.150400.24.98.3
- kernel-rt SLE Micro 5.4, SLE Micro 5.3 5.14.21-150400.15.142.1
- kernel-source-rt SLE Micro 5.4, SLE Micro 5.3 5.14.21-150400.15.142.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:0617-1SUSE-SU-2026:0411-1SUSE-SU-2026:0317-1SUSE-SU-2026:0263-1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/75d20ba9506eb90d92e660e04dd887ff1495fcc3 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb3517b92a45c8004ac26250ae041a24eb23fef1 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/112c1af02b8f535baf42ef9d807aea963705ef15 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a2eb9d9d0c1535bc8e22840193bff4cdcac878b commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9424ea9d557ef41d86eb40b6349ae991c3dcff89 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/62ec7e8bf42f1542f966dda687c654aae81718c8 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f590fb3d14e5db3a9e06ee141b1685c429278ce commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fe21dc626117fb44a8eb393713a86a620128ce3 commit
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2022-50660 updated cvss 5.5
kernel: wifi: ipw2200: fix memory leak in ipw_wdev_init()
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernelnot affected: vulnerable code not present
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/75d20ba9506eb90d92e660e04dd887ff1495fcc3
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/fb3517b92a45c8004ac26250ae041a24eb23fef1
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/112c1af02b8f535baf42ef9d807aea963705ef15
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/8a2eb9d9d0c1535bc8e22840193bff4cdcac878b
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/9424ea9d557ef41d86eb40b6349ae991c3dcff89
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/62ec7e8bf42f1542f966dda687c654aae81718c8
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/1f590fb3d14e5db3a9e06ee141b1685c429278ce
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/9fe21dc626117fb44a8eb393713a86a620128ce3
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2022-50660
- NVD CVE-2022-50660
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