CVE-2022-50570 (GCVE-0-2022-50570)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-22 13:23 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:59
VLAI
Title
platform/chrome: fix memory corruption in ioctl
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/chrome: fix memory corruption in ioctl If "s_mem.bytes" is larger than the buffer size it leads to memory corruption.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: eda2e30c6684d67288edb841c6125d48c608a242 , < e548f9503c4b3292a60a63fe77dccea62999a35a (git)
Affected: eda2e30c6684d67288edb841c6125d48c608a242 , < 868fc93b615b9f6c2b0b1894536618fa6cd66acc (git)
Affected: eda2e30c6684d67288edb841c6125d48c608a242 , < fd1d3b265784a2243fcaef06aebfb2f8ee733cec (git)
Affected: eda2e30c6684d67288edb841c6125d48c608a242 , < f143f1d9a8e5c6c9db3de81ca270191226fcce36 (git)
Affected: eda2e30c6684d67288edb841c6125d48c608a242 , < 0c2e18924504208644d18415667895a4ac54cf2a (git)
Affected: eda2e30c6684d67288edb841c6125d48c608a242 , < 8a07b45fd3c2dda24fad43639be5335a4595196a (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.220 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.150 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.75 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19.17 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.3 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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