CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50756
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvme-pci: fix mempool alloc size
Convert the max size to bytes to match the units of the divisor that
calculates the worst-case number of PRP entries.
The result is used to determine how many PRP Lists are required. The
code was previously rounding this to 1 list, but we can require 2 in the
worst case. In that scenario, the driver would corrupt memory beyond the
size provided by the mempool.
While unlikely to occur (you'd need a 4MB in exactly 127 phys segments
on a queue that doesn't support SGLs), this memory corruption has been
observed by kfence.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9141144b37f30e3e7fa024bcfa0a13011e546ba9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1814724e0d7162bdf4799f2d565381bc2251c63 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c89a529e823d51dd23c7ec0c047c7a454a428541 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dfb6d54893d544151e7f480bc44cfe7823f5ad23 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1777b4286e526c58b4ee699344b0ad85aaf83a0 git.kernel.org