CVE-2022-50756 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Linux
Severity
5.9MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 92.57%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 24
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvme-pci: fix mempool alloc size
Convert the max size to bytes to match the units of the divisor that
calculates the worst-case number of PRP entries.
The result is used to determine how many PRP Lists are required. The
code was previously rounding this to 1 list, but we can require 2 in the
worst case. In that scenario, the driver would corrupt memory beyond the
size provided by the mempool.
While unlikely to occur (you'd n…
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux943e942e6266f22babee5efeb00f8f672fbff5bd — dfb6d54893d544151e7f480bc44cfe7823f5ad23+5
🔴Vulnerability Details
3OSV▶
CVE-2022-50756: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme-pci: fix mempool alloc size Convert the max size to bytes to match the units↗2025-12-24
GHSA▶
GHSA-j2wx-wqf4-px3j: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvme-pci: fix mempool alloc size
Convert the max size to bytes to match the unit↗2025-12-24