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.
[
{
"vendor": "n/a",
"product": "Kernel",
"versions": [
{
"version": "Linux 5.16-rc6",
"status": "affected"
}
]
}
]