CVE-2022-50330 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.77%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 15
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: cavium - prevent integer overflow loading firmware
The "code_length" value comes from the firmware file. If your firmware
is untrusted realistically there is probably very little you can do to
protect yourself. Still we try to limit the damage as much as possible.
Also Smatch marks any data read from the filesystem as untrusted and
prints warnings if it not capped correctly.
The "ntohl(ucode->code_length) * 2" multipl…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux9e2c7d99941d000a36f68a3594cec27a1bbea274 — c4d4c2afd08dfb3cd1c880d1811ede2568e81a6d+8
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-w6rv-q4xv-mrf3: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: cavium - prevent integer overflow loading firmware
The "code_length" val↗2025-09-15
OSV▶
CVE-2022-50330: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: cavium - prevent integer overflow loading firmware The "code_length" value↗2025-09-15