description: 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.
problem types: CWE-476
affected:
{
vendor: n/a
product: Kernel
versions:
version: Linux 5.16-rc6, status: affected
}