CVE-2022-50165 Affecting python-perf package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-PYTHONPERF-10480608
  • published20 Jun 2025
  • disclosed18 Jun 2025

Introduced: 18 Jun 2025

NewCVE-2022-50165  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 python-perf.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-perf package and not the python-perf package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

wifi: wil6210: debugfs: fix uninitialized variable use in wil_write_file_wmi()

Commit 7a4836560a61 changes simple_write_to_buffer() with memdup_user() but it forgets to change the value to be returned that came from simple_write_to_buffer() call. It results in the following warning:

warning: variable 'rc' is uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized] return rc; ^~

Remove rc variable and just return the passed in length if the memdup_user() succeeds.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1