CVE-2022-50756

nvme-pci: fix mempool alloc size

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: December 24, 2025 at 01:05 PM UTC
Updated: October 15, 2026 at 10:17 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

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

4.18943e942e6266f22babee5efeb00f8f672fbff5bd
Vendor states this is fixed in 9141144b37f30e3e7fa024bcfa0a13011e546ba9 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b1814724e0d7162bdf4799f2d565381bc2251c63 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c89a529e823d51dd23c7ec0c047c7a454a428541 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in dfb6d54893d544151e7f480bc44cfe7823f5ad23 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e1777b4286e526c58b4ee699344b0ad85aaf83a0 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.18 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.163 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.87 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.0.17 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

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