CVE-2022-50756

Linux Kernel 4.18.0-6.1.2 - Memory Corruption via NVMe PCI Mempool Allocation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 11.8%

Details

Status published
Products (16)
linux/Kernel 4.18.0 - 5.10.163linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.87linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.0.17linux
linux/Kernel 6.1.0 - 6.1.3linux
Linux/Linux < 4.18
Linux/Linux 4.18
Linux/Linux 5.10.163 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.87 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.0.17 - 6.0.*
Linux/Linux 6.1.3 - 6.1.*
... and 6 more
Published Dec 24, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026