Vulnerability · Published Dec 24, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2022-50701wifi: mt76: mt7921s: fix slab-out-of-bounds access in sdio host

High 7.1

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 4% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.1High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.1%top 95.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7921s: fix slab-out-of-bounds access in sdio host SDIO may need addtional 511 bytes to align bus operation. If the tailroom of this skb is not big enough, we would access invalid memory region. For low level operation, increase skb size to keep valid memory access in SDIO host. Error message: [69.951] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in sg_copy_buffer+0xe9/0x1a0 [69.951] Read of size 64 at addr ffff88811c9cf000 by task kworker/u16:7/451 [69.951] CPU: 4 PID: 451 Comm: kworker/u16:7 Tainted: G W OE 6.1.0-rc5 #1 [69.951] Workqueue: kvub300c vub300_cmndwork_thread [vub300] [69.951] Call Trace: [69.951] <TASK> [69.952] dump_stack_lvl+0x49/0x63 [69.952] print_report+0x171/0x4a8 [69.952] kasan_report+0xb4/0x130 [69.952] kasan_check_range+0x149/0x1e0 [69.952] memcpy+0x24/0x70 [69.952] sg_copy_buffer+0xe9/0x1a0 [69.952] sg_copy_to_buffer+0x12/0x20 [69.952] __command_write_data.isra.0+0x23c/0xbf0 [vub300] [69.952] vub300_cmndwork_thread+0x17f3/0x58b0 [vub300] [69.952] process_one_work+0x7ee/0x1320 [69.952] worker_thread+0x53c/0x1240 [69.952] kthread+0x2b8/0x370 [69.952] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 [69.952] </TASK> [69.952] Allocated by task 854: [69.952] kasan_save_stack+0x26/0x50 [69.952] kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30 [69.952] kasan_save_alloc_info+0x1b/0x30 [69.952] __kasan_kmalloc+0x87/0xa0 [69.952] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x63/0x150 [69.952] kmalloc_reserve+0x31/0xd0 [69.952] __alloc_skb+0xfc/0x2b0 [69.952] __mt76_mcu_msg_alloc+0xbf/0x230 [mt76] [69.952] mt76_mcu_send_and_get_msg+0xab/0x110 [mt76] [69.952] __mt76_mcu_send_firmware.cold+0x94/0x15d [mt76] [69.952] mt76_connac_mcu_send_ram_firmware+0x415/0x54d [mt76_connac_lib] [69.952] mt76_connac2_load_ram.cold+0x118/0x4bc [mt76_connac_lib] [69.952] mt7921_run_firmware.cold+0x2e9/0x405 [mt7921_common] [69.952] mt7921s_mcu_init+0x45/0x80 [mt7921s] [69.953] mt7921_init_work+0xe1/0x2a0 [mt7921_common] [69.953] process_one_work+0x7ee/0x1320 [69.953] worker_thread+0x53c/0x1240 [69.953] kthread+0x2b8/0x370 [69.953] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 [69.953] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88811c9ce800 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048 [69.953] The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of 2048-byte region [ffff88811c9ce800, ffff88811c9cf000) [69.953] Memory state around the buggy address: [69.953] ffff88811c9cef00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [69.953] ffff88811c9cef80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [69.953] >ffff88811c9cf000: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc [69.953] ^ [69.953] ffff88811c9cf080: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc [69.953] ffff88811c9cf100: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux6.1.20-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50701
Debian:13linux6.1.20-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50701
Debian:14linux6.1.20-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50701

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 764dee47e2c1ed828c8a51cbf58f89b5e3ded11b – before 8b5174a7f25d03df0ffa171ff86de383a89e8e89764dee47e2c1ed828c8a51cbf58f89b5e3ded11b – before 0b358e36433d2c46a65488a146bf8b4623fc5bbb764dee47e2c1ed828c8a51cbf58f89b5e3ded11b – before aec4cf2ea0797e28f18f8dbe01943a56d987fe56
Linux Linux 5.16

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