CVE-2022-50709
No CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath9k: avoid uninit memory read in ath9k_htc_rx_msg()
syzbot is reporting uninit value at ath9k_htc_rx_msg() [1], for
ioctl(USB_RAW_IOCTL_EP_WRITE) can call ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream() with
pkt_len = 0 but ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream() uses
__dev_alloc_skb(pkt_len + 32, GFP_ATOMIC) based on an assumption that
pkt_len is valid. As a result, ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream() allocates skb
with uninitialized memory and ath9k_htc_rx_msg() is reading from
uninitialized memory.
Since bytes accessed by ath9k_htc_rx_msg() is not known until
ath9k_htc_rx_msg() is called, it would be difficult to check minimal valid
pkt_len at "if (pkt_len > 2 * MAX_RX_BUF_SIZE) {" line in
ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream().
We have two choices. One is to workaround by adding __GFP_ZERO so that
ath9k_htc_rx_msg() sees 0 if pkt_len is invalid. The other is to let
ath9k_htc_rx_msg() validate pkt_len before accessing. This patch chose
the latter.
Note that I'm not sure threshold condition is correct, for I can't find
details on possible packet length used by this protocol.
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 11% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d2649b288b7b9484e3d4380c0d6c4720a17e473
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c485f4f2a64258acc5228e78ffb828c68d9e770
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4891a50f5ed8bfcb8f2a4b816b0676f398687783
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84242f15f911f34aec9b22f99d1e9bff19723dbe
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9661724f6206bd606ecf13acada676a9975d230b