CVE-2022-50508 (GCVE-0-2022-50508)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-04 15:43 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:59
VLAI
Title
wifi: mt76: mt76x0: fix oob access in mt76x0_phy_get_target_power
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt76x0: fix oob access in mt76x0_phy_get_target_power After 'commit ba45841ca5eb ("wifi: mt76: mt76x02: simplify struct mt76x02_rate_power")', mt76x02 relies on ht[0-7] rate_power data for vht mcs{0,7}, while it uses vth[0-1] rate_power for vht mcs {8,9}. Fix a possible out-of-bound access in mt76x0_phy_get_target_power routine.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7018 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: ba45841ca5eb29245f9c9f452a39586d9d68bc12 , < bf425c5d7ef6fb4083c1e0d46440f886127b5ee5 (git)
Affected: ba45841ca5eb29245f9c9f452a39586d9d68bc12 , < 6e1abc51c945663bddebfa1beb9590ff5b250eb7 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.3 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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