CVE-2022-50279 — Out-of-bounds Read in Linux

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read5 documents5 sources
Severity
7.1HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.63%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedSep 15

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtlwifi: Fix global-out-of-bounds bug in _rtl8812ae_phy_set_txpower_limit() There is a global-out-of-bounds reported by KASAN: BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in _rtl8812ae_eq_n_byte.part.0+0x3d/0x84 [rtl8821ae] Read of size 1 at addr ffffffffa0773c43 by task NetworkManager/411 CPU: 6 PID: 411 Comm: NetworkManager Tainted: G D 6.1.0-rc8+ #144 e15588508517267d37 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), Call …

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.2

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel3.18 — 4.19.276+5
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.178-1+3
▶CVEListV5linux/linux21e4b0726dc671c423e2dc9a85364716219c4502 — fc3442247716fc426bbcf62ed65e086e48a6d44f+7
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.20-1 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
OSV
CVE-2022-50279: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtlwifi: Fix global-out-of-bounds bug in _rtl8812ae_phy_set_txpower_limit()↗2025-09-15
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GHSA
GHSA-wwr7-fwgx-c7x5: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtlwifi: Fix global-out-of-bounds bug in _rtl8812ae_phy_set_txpower_limit()↗2025-09-15
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: wifi: rtlwifi: Fix global-out-of-bounds bug in _rtl8812ae_phy_set_txpower_limit()↗2025-09-15
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Debian
CVE-2022-50279: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtlwi...↗2022
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