{"cve":"CVE-2022-49740","nvd":{"published":"2025-03-27T17:15:38.583","modified":"2026-06-17T05:19:00.713","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: brcmfmac: Check the count value of channel spec to prevent out-of-bounds reads\n\nThis patch fixes slab-out-of-bounds reads in brcmfmac that occur in\nbrcmf_construct_chaninfo() and brcmf_enable_bw40_2g() when the count\nvalue of channel specifications provided by the device is greater than\nthe length of 'list->element[]', decided by the size of the 'list'\nallocated with kzalloc(). The patch adds checks that make the functions\nfree the buffer and return -EINVAL if that is the case. Note that the\nnegative return is handled by the caller, brcmf_setup_wiphybands() or\nbrcmf_cfg80211_attach().\n\nFound by a modified version of syzkaller.\n\nCrash Report from brcmf_construct_chaninfo():\n==================================================================\nBUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in brcmf_setup_wiphybands+0x1238/0x1430\nRead of size 4 at addr ffff888115f24600 by task kworker/0:2/1896\n\nCPU: 0 PID: 1896 Comm: kworker/0:2 Tainted: G        W  O      5.14.0+ #132\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58e9a3f-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\nWorkqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event\nCall Trace:\n dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x7d\n print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0x93/0x334\n kasan_report.cold+0x83/0xdf\n brcmf_setup_wiphybands+0x1238/0x1430\n brcmf_cfg80211_attach+0x2118/0x3fd0\n brcmf_attach+0x389/0xd40\n brcmf_usb_probe+0x12de/0x1690\n usb_probe_interface+0x25f/0x710\n really_probe+0x1be/0xa90\n __driver_probe_device+0x2ab/0x460\n driver_probe_device+0x49/0x120\n __device_attach_driver+0x18a/0x250\n bus_for_each_drv+0x123/0x1a0\n __device_attach+0x207/0x330\n bus_probe_device+0x1a2/0x260\n device_add+0xa61/0x1ce0\n usb_set_configuration+0x984/0x1770\n usb_generic_driver_probe+0x69/0x90\n usb_probe_device+0x9c/0x220\n really_probe+0x1be/0xa90\n __driver_probe_device+0x2ab/0x460\n driver_probe_device+0x49/0x120\n __device_attach_driver+0x18a/0x250\n bus_for_each_drv+0x123/0x1a0\n __device_attach+0x207/0x330\n bus_probe_device+0x1a2/0x260\n device_add+0xa61/0x1ce0\n usb_new_device.cold+0x463/0xf66\n hub_event+0x10d5/0x3330\n process_one_work+0x873/0x13e0\n worker_thread+0x8b/0xd10\n kthread+0x379/0x450\n ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30\n\nAllocated by task 1896:\n kasan_save_stack+0x1b/0x40\n __kasan_kmalloc+0x7c/0x90\n kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x19e/0x330\n brcmf_setup_wiphybands+0x290/0x1430\n brcmf_cfg80211_attach+0x2118/0x3fd0\n brcmf_attach+0x389/0xd40\n brcmf_usb_probe+0x12de/0x1690\n usb_probe_interface+0x25f/0x710\n really_probe+0x1be/0xa90\n __driver_probe_device+0x2ab/0x460\n driver_probe_device+0x49/0x120\n __device_attach_driver+0x18a/0x250\n bus_for_each_drv+0x123/0x1a0\n __device_attach+0x207/0x330\n bus_probe_device+0x1a2/0x260\n device_add+0xa61/0x1ce0\n usb_set_configuration+0x984/0x1770\n usb_generic_driver_probe+0x69/0x90\n usb_probe_device+0x9c/0x220\n really_probe+0x1be/0xa90\n __driver_probe_device+0x2ab/0x460\n driver_probe_device+0x49/0x120\n __device_attach_driver+0x18a/0x250\n bus_for_each_drv+0x123/0x1a0\n __device_attach+0x207/0x330\n bus_probe_device+0x1a2/0x260\n device_add+0xa61/0x1ce0\n usb_new_device.cold+0x463/0xf66\n hub_event+0x10d5/0x3330\n process_one_work+0x873/0x13e0\n worker_thread+0x8b/0xd10\n kthread+0x379/0x450\n ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30\n\nThe buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888115f24000\n which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048\nThe buggy address is located 1536 bytes inside of\n 2048-byte region [ffff888115f24000, ffff888115f24800)\n\nMemory state around the buggy address:\n ffff888115f24500: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n ffff888115f24580: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n>ffff888115f24600: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\n                   ^\n ffff888115f24680: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\n ffff888115f24700: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\n==================================================================\n\nCrash Report from brcmf_enable_bw40_2g():\n==========\n---truncated---","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H","score":7.1},"cwes":["CWE-125"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4920ab131b2dbae7464b72bdcac465d070254209","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9cf5e99c1ae1a85286a76c9a970202750538394c","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2e412879595821ff1b5545cbed5f108fba7f5b6","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4991910f15013db72f6ec0db7038ea67a57052e","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f06de1bb6d61f0c18b0213bbc6298960037f9d42"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:00:28.034033815+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2022-49740","score":0.00199,"percentile":0.09708,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). 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