CVE-2022-50258

wifi: brcmfmac: Fix potential stack-out-of-bounds in brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds()

HIGH

7.8

CVSS Score

Published: September 15, 2025 at 02:02 PM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 05:23 AM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity

HIGH7.8

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: brcmfmac: Fix potential stack-out-of-bounds in brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds() This patch fixes a stack-out-of-bounds read in brcmfmac that occurs when 'buf' that is not null-terminated is passed as an argument of strsep() in brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds(). This buffer is filled with a firmware version string by memcpy() in brcmf_fil_iovar_data_get(). The patch ensures buf is null-terminated. Found by a modified version of syzkaller. [ 47.569679][ T1897] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac43236b for chip BCM43236/3 [ 47.582839][ T1897] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_process_clm_blob: no clm_blob available (err=-2), device may have limited channels available [ 47.601565][ T1897] ================================================================== [ 47.602574][ T1897] BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in strsep+0x1b2/0x1f0 [ 47.603447][ T1897] Read of size 1 at addr ffffc90001f6f000 by task kworker/0:2/1897 [ 47.604336][ T1897] [ 47.604621][ T1897] CPU: 0 PID: 1897 Comm: kworker/0:2 Tainted: G O 5.14.0+ #131 [ 47.605617][ T1897] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58e9a3f-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 47.606907][ T1897] Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event [ 47.607453][ T1897] Call Trace: [ 47.607801][ T1897] dump_stack_lvl+0x8e/0xd1 [ 47.608295][ T1897] print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0xf/0x334 [ 47.609009][ T1897] ? strsep+0x1b2/0x1f0 [ 47.609434][ T1897] ? strsep+0x1b2/0x1f0 [ 47.609863][ T1897] kasan_report.cold+0x83/0xdf [ 47.610366][ T1897] ? strsep+0x1b2/0x1f0 [ 47.610882][ T1897] strsep+0x1b2/0x1f0 [ 47.611300][ T1897] ? brcmf_fil_iovar_data_get+0x3a/0xf0 [ 47.611883][ T1897] brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds+0x995/0xc40 [ 47.612434][ T1897] ? brcmf_c_set_joinpref_default+0x100/0x100 [ 47.613078][ T1897] ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0xa1/0xd0 [ 47.613662][ T1897] ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xb0/0xb0 [ 47.614208][ T1897] ? lock_acquire+0x19d/0x4e0 [ 47.614704][ T1897] ? find_held_lock+0x2d/0x110 [ 47.615236][ T1897] ? brcmf_usb_deq+0x1a7/0x260 [ 47.615741][ T1897] ? brcmf_usb_rx_fill_all+0x5a/0xf0 [ 47.616288][ T1897] brcmf_attach+0x246/0xd40 [ 47.616758][ T1897] ? wiphy_new_nm+0x1703/0x1dd0 [ 47.617280][ T1897] ? kmemdup+0x43/0x50 [ 47.617720][ T1897] brcmf_usb_probe+0x12de/0x1690 [ 47.618244][ T1897] ? brcmf_usbdev_qinit.constprop.0+0x470/0x470 [ 47.618901][ T1897] usb_probe_interface+0x2aa/0x760 [ 47.619429][ T1897] ? usb_probe_device+0x250/0x250 [ 47.619950][ T1897] really_probe+0x205/0xb70 [ 47.620435][ T1897] ? driver_allows_async_probing+0x130/0x130 [ 47.621048][ T1897] __driver_probe_device+0x311/0x4b0 [ 47.621595][ T1897] ? driver_allows_async_probing+0x130/0x130 [ 47.622209][ T1897] driver_probe_device+0x4e/0x150 [ 47.622739][ T1897] __device_attach_driver+0x1cc/0x2a0 [ 47.623287][ T1897] bus_for_each_drv+0x156/0x1d0 [ 47.623796][ T1897] ? bus_rescan_devices+0x30/0x30 [ 47.624309][ T1897] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x273/0x3e0 [ 47.624907][ T1897] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x46/0x160 [ 47.625437][ T1897] __device_attach+0x23f/0x3a0 [ 47.625924][ T1897] ? device_bind_driver+0xd0/0xd0 [ 47.626433][ T1897] ? kobject_uevent_env+0x287/0x14b0 [ 47.627057][ T1897] bus_probe_device+0x1da/0x290 [ 47.627557][ T1897] device_add+0xb7b/0x1eb0 [ 47.628027][ T1897] ? wait_for_completion+0x290/0x290 [ 47.628593][ T1897] ? __fw_devlink_link_to_suppliers+0x5a0/0x5a0 [ 47.629249][ T1897] usb_set_configuration+0xf59/0x16f0 [ 47.629829][ T1897] usb_generic_driver_probe+0x82/0xa0 [ 47.630385][ T1897] usb_probe_device+0xbb/0x250 [ 47.630927][ T1897] ? usb_suspend+0x590/0x590 [ 47.631397][ T1897] really_probe+0x205/0xb70 [ 47.631855][ T1897] ? driver_allows_async_probing+0x130/0x130 [ 47.632469][ T1897] __driver_probe_device+0x311/0x4b0 [ 47.633002][ ---truncated---

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Linux Kernel · Linux

95%

v < 4.14.3083.8 ≤ v < 4.14.3083.8 ≤ v < 4.19.2763.8 ≤ v < 5.10.1733.8 ≤ v < 5.15.993.8 ≤ v < 5.4.2353.8 ≤ v < 6.1.163.8 ≤ v < 6.2.33.8 ≤ v < 6.34.15 ≤ v < 4.19.2764.20 ≤ v < 5.4.2355.11 ≤ v < 5.15.995.16 ≤ v < 6.1.165.5 ≤ v < 5.10.1736.2 ≤ v < 6.2.30af29bf7c1ddf5f3c35577409de46ede5e8d78453.8

Vendor states this is fixed in 0a06cadcc2a0044e4a117cc0e61436fc3a0dad69 (fixed)

Vendor states this is fixed in 17dbe90e13f52848c460d253f15b765038ec6dc0 (fixed)

Vendor states this is fixed in 3a3a5e3f94068cd562d62a57da6983c8cd07d53c (fixed)

Vendor states this is fixed in 881f50d76c3892262730ddf5c894eb00310e736c (fixed)

Vendor states this is fixed in 89243a7b0ea19606ba1c2873c9d569026ccb344f (fixed)

Vendor states this is fixed in ba166e0ebdde3dfa833f0a3edaf2b2934d4a87f7 (fixed)

Vendor states this is fixed in d481fd6064bf215d7c5068e15aa390c3b16c9cd0 (fixed)

Vendor states this is fixed in d6ef66194bb4a6c18f5b9649bf62597909b040e4 (fixed)

Vendor states this is fixed in 3.8 (unaffected)

Vendor states this is fixed in 4.14.308 (unaffected)

Vendor states this is fixed in 4.19.276 (unaffected)

Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.173 (unaffected)