CVE-2022-50784 | wifi: iwlwifi: mei: fix potential NULL-ptr deref after clone

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mei: fix potential NULL-ptr deref after clone If cloning the SKB fails, don't try to use it, but rather return as if we should pass it. Coverity CID: 1503456

Published: 2025-12-30 Last update: 2026-06-17 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
NVD Status：Deferred，CVE State: published
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CVE-2022-50784 is rated Low Risk (5.1/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.15%). Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2022-50784

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.02% 0.15% +0.14%
2 2025-12-31 — 0.02% —

Full EPSS history (2 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2022-50784

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2022-50784

OS Trackers for CVE-2022-50784

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2022-50784 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-50784
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50784
suse medium CVE-2022-50784 severity moderate: SUSE including 26 source package names (cluster-md-kmp-default, dlm-kmp-default, …), 315 product×package rows across 61 product lines (SLES-LTSS-TERADATA 15 SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP3, … (61 product lines)): Known Not Affected 315. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50784/
ubuntu medium CVE-2022-50784 medium priority: Ubuntu including 157 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1405 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1010, ignored 173, not-affected 136, released 83, needed 3. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-50784

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2022-50784

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2022-50784

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