CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50226
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-06-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: ccp - Use kzalloc for sev ioctl interfaces to prevent kernel memory leak
For some sev ioctl interfaces, input may be passed that is less than or
equal to SEV_FW_BLOB_MAX_SIZE, but larger than the data that PSP
firmware returns. In this case, kmalloc will allocate memory that is the
size of the input rather than the size of the data. Since PSP firmware
doesn't fully overwrite the buffer, the sev ioctl interfaces with the
issue may return uninitialized slab memory.
Currently, all of the ioctl interfaces in the ccp driver are safe, but
to prevent future problems, change all ioctl interfaces that allocate
memory with kmalloc to use kzalloc and memset the data buffer to zero
in sev_ioctl_do_platform_status.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.16 < 5.10.173)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.61)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.18.18)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.19 < 5.19.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13dc15a3f5fd7f884e4bfa8c011a0ae868df12ae Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c5300f6f5e18b11c02a92f136e69b98fddba15e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/caa395aa16e7c9193fd7fa6cde462dd8229d4953 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e11fb0a3a39bb42da35fa662c46ce7391f277436 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2a920daa780956b987c14b9f23de7c3c8915bf2 Patch