CVE-2022-50871 (GCVE-0-2022-50871)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:15 – Updated: 2026-01-02 15:05
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Title
wifi: ath11k: Fix qmi_msg_handler data structure initialization
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath11k: Fix qmi_msg_handler data structure initialization qmi_msg_handler is required to be null terminated by QMI module. There might be a case where a handler for a msg id is not present in the handlers array which can lead to infinite loop while searching the handler and therefore out of bound access in qmi_invoke_handler(). Hence update the initialization in qmi_msg_handler data structure. Tested-on: IPQ8074 hw2.0 AHB WLAN.HK.2.5.0.1-01100-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
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Linux Linux Affected: d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d , < d5d71de448f36e34592f7c81b5e300d3e8dbb735 (git)
Affected: d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d , < a10e1530c424bb277b4edc7def0195857a548495 (git)
Affected: d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d , < ed3725e15a154ebebf44e0c34806c57525483f92 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.6 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.16 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.2 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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