CVE-2022-50066 net: atlantic: fix aq_vec index out of range error
An out-of-bounds array index in the Atlantic network driver can cause a kernel crash during system suspend, leading to denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2022-50066?
CVE-2022-50066 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Jun 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: atlantic: fix aq_vec index out of range error
The final update statement of the for loop exceeds the array range, the dereference of self->aq_vec[i] is not checked and then leads to the index out of range error. Also fixed this kind of coding style in other for loop.
[ 97.937604] UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_nic.c:1404:48 [ 97.937607] index 8 is out of range for type 'aq_vec_s *[8]' [ 97.937608] CPU: 38 PID: 3767 Comm: kworker/u256:18 Not tainted 5.19.0+ #2 [ 97.937610] Hardware name: Dell Inc. Precision 7865 Tower/, BIOS 1.0.0 06/12/2022 [ 97.937611] Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn [ 97.937616] Call Trace: [ 97.937617] <TASK> [ 97.937619] dump_stack_lvl+0x49/0x63 [ 97.937624] dump_stack+0x10/0x16 [ 97.937626] ubsan_epilogue+0x9/0x3f [ 97.937627] __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds.cold+0x44/0x49 [ 97.937629] ? __scm_send+0x348/0x440 [ 97.937632] ? aq_vec_stop+0x72/0x80 [atlantic] [ 97.937639] aq_nic_stop+0x1b6/0x1c0 [atlantic] [ 97.937644] aq_suspend_common+0x88/0x90 [atlantic] [ 97.937648] aq_pm_suspend_poweroff+0xe/0x20 [atlantic] [ 97.937653] pci_pm_suspend+0x7e/0x1a0 [ 97.937655] ? pci_pm_suspend_noirq+0x2b0/0x2b0 [ 97.937657] dpm_run_callback+0x54/0x190 [ 97.937660] __device_suspend+0x14c/0x4d0 [ 97.937661] async_suspend+0x23/0x70 [ 97.937663] async_run_entry_fn+0x33/0x120 [ 97.937664] process_one_work+0x21f/0x3f0 [ 97.937666] worker_thread+0x4a/0x3c0 [ 97.937668] ? process_one_work+0x3f0/0x3f0 [ 97.937669] kthread+0xf0/0x120 [ 97.937671] ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20 [ 97.937672] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 [ 97.937676] </TASK>
v2. fixed "warning: variable 'aq_vec' set but not used"
v3. simplified a for loop
Weakness: CWE-129
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50066?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2022-50066?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2022-50066 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50066 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50066, GHSA-vj4r-4wf2-9m3w, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50066.