CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50239
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-09-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cpufreq: qcom: fix writes in read-only memory region
This commit fixes a kernel oops because of a write in some read-only memory:
[ 9.068287] Unable to handle kernel write to read-only memory at virtual address ffff800009240ad8
..snip..
[ 9.138790] Internal error: Oops: 9600004f [#1] PREEMPT SMP
..snip..
[ 9.269161] Call trace:
[ 9.276271] __memcpy+0x5c/0x230
[ 9.278531] snprintf+0x58/0x80
[ 9.282002] qcom_cpufreq_msm8939_name_version+0xb4/0x190
[ 9.284869] qcom_cpufreq_probe+0xc8/0x39c
..snip..
The following line defines a pointer that point to a char buffer stored
in read-only memory:
char *pvs_name = "speedXX-pvsXX-vXX";
This pointer is meant to hold a template "speedXX-pvsXX-vXX" where the
XX values get overridden by the qcom_cpufreq_krait_name_version function. Since
the template is actually stored in read-only memory, when the function
executes the following call we get an oops:
snprintf(*pvs_name, sizeof("speedXX-pvsXX-vXX"), "speed%d-pvs%d-v%d",
speed, pvs, pvs_ver);
To fix this issue, we instead store the template name onto the stack by
using the following syntax:
char pvs_name_buffer[] = "speedXX-pvsXX-vXX";
Because the `pvs_name` needs to be able to be assigned to NULL, the
template buffer is stored in the pvs_name_buffer and not under the
pvs_name variable.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.7 < 5.10.152)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.76)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.0.6)
• linux linux kernel 6.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01039fb8e90c9cb684430414bff70cea9eb168c5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14d260f94ff89543597ffea13db8b277a810e08e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/794ded0bc461287a268bed21fea2eebb6e5d232c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b74ee4e301ca01e431e240c046173332966e2431 Patch