CVE-2022-49544

ipw2x00: Fix potential NULL dereference in libipw_xmit()

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Feb 26, 2025
Updated: May 11, 2026
Reserved: Feb 26, 2025

Description

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

ipw2x00: Fix potential NULL dereference in libipw_xmit()

crypt and crypt->ops could be null, so we need to checking null before dereference

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	f1bf6638af9e9bbbb6fb0b769054fb7db1ae652f to before 1ff6b0727c8988f25eeb670b6c038c1120bb58ddAffected f1bf6638af9e9bbbb6fb0b769054fb7db1ae652f to before b4628e0d3754ab2fc98ee6e3d21851ba45798077Affected f1bf6638af9e9bbbb6fb0b769054fb7db1ae652f to before 167affc11781d7d35c4c3a7630a549ac74dd0b21Affected f1bf6638af9e9bbbb6fb0b769054fb7db1ae652f to before 8fb1b9beb085bb767ae43e441db5ac6fcd66a04dAffected f1bf6638af9e9bbbb6fb0b769054fb7db1ae652f to before 98d1dc32f890642476dbb78ed3437a456bf421b0Affected f1bf6638af9e9bbbb6fb0b769054fb7db1ae652f to before 48d4a820fd33f012e5f63735a59d15b5a3882882Affected f1bf6638af9e9bbbb6fb0b769054fb7db1ae652f to before 5f7ea274e88c0eeffe6bd6dbf6cf5c479d356af6Affected f1bf6638af9e9bbbb6fb0b769054fb7db1ae652f to before 528d2023ccf4748fd542582955236c1634a7d293Affected f1bf6638af9e9bbbb6fb0b769054fb7db1ae652f to before e8366bbabe1d207cf7c5b11ae50e223ae6fc278bAffected
LinuxLinux	2.6.15Affected before 2.6.15Not affected 4.9.318 through 4.9.Not affected 4.14.283 through 4.14.Not affected 4.19.247 through 4.19.Not affected 5.4.198 through 5.4.Not affected 5.10.121 through 5.10.Not affected 5.15.46 through 5.15.Not affected 5.17.14 through 5.17.Not affected 5.18.3 through 5.18.Not affected 5.19 and laterNot affected

Product

Versions

LinuxLinux

f1bf6638af9e9bbbb6fb0b769054fb7db1ae652f to before 1ff6b0727c8988f25eeb670b6c038c1120bb58ddAffected
f1bf6638af9e9bbbb6fb0b769054fb7db1ae652f to before b4628e0d3754ab2fc98ee6e3d21851ba45798077Affected
f1bf6638af9e9bbbb6fb0b769054fb7db1ae652f to before 167affc11781d7d35c4c3a7630a549ac74dd0b21Affected
f1bf6638af9e9bbbb6fb0b769054fb7db1ae652f to before 8fb1b9beb085bb767ae43e441db5ac6fcd66a04dAffected
f1bf6638af9e9bbbb6fb0b769054fb7db1ae652f to before 98d1dc32f890642476dbb78ed3437a456bf421b0Affected
f1bf6638af9e9bbbb6fb0b769054fb7db1ae652f to before 48d4a820fd33f012e5f63735a59d15b5a3882882Affected
f1bf6638af9e9bbbb6fb0b769054fb7db1ae652f to before 5f7ea274e88c0eeffe6bd6dbf6cf5c479d356af6Affected
f1bf6638af9e9bbbb6fb0b769054fb7db1ae652f to before 528d2023ccf4748fd542582955236c1634a7d293Affected
f1bf6638af9e9bbbb6fb0b769054fb7db1ae652f to before e8366bbabe1d207cf7c5b11ae50e223ae6fc278bAffected

LinuxLinux

2.6.15Affected
before 2.6.15Not affected
4.9.318 through 4.9.*Not affected
4.14.283 through 4.14.*Not affected
4.19.247 through 4.19.*Not affected
5.4.198 through 5.4.*Not affected
5.10.121 through 5.10.*Not affected
5.15.46 through 5.15.*Not affected
5.17.14 through 5.17.*Not affected
5.18.3 through 5.18.*Not affected
5.19 and laterNot affected

References

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