CVE-2022-49544 (GCVE-0-2022-49544)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-02-26 02:13
Modified
2026-05-11 19:01
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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
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Linux Linux Version: f1bf6638af9e9bbbb6fb0b769054fb7db1ae652f
Version: f1bf6638af9e9bbbb6fb0b769054fb7db1ae652f
Version: f1bf6638af9e9bbbb6fb0b769054fb7db1ae652f
Version: f1bf6638af9e9bbbb6fb0b769054fb7db1ae652f
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Version: f1bf6638af9e9bbbb6fb0b769054fb7db1ae652f
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