# CVE-2022-50080: tee: add overflow check in register_shm_helper()

> An integer overflow in the Linux kernel TEE driver allows local attackers to trigger a NULL pointer dereference, causing a system crash.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **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:** Yes
- **Published:** 18 Jun 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50080, GHSA-cqg3-9qgq-grfj, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50080

## What is CVE-2022-50080?

CVE-2022-50080 is a medium-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:

tee: add overflow check in register_shm_helper()

With special lengths supplied by user space, register_shm_helper() has
an integer overflow when calculating the number of pages covered by a
supplied user space memory region.

This causes internal_get_user_pages_fast() a helper function of
pin_user_pages_fast() to do a NULL pointer dereference:

  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000010
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 1 PID: 173 Comm: optee_example_a Not tainted 5.19.0 #11
  Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  pc : internal_get_user_pages_fast+0x474/0xa80
  Call trace:
   internal_get_user_pages_fast+0x474/0xa80
   pin_user_pages_fast+0x24/0x4c
   register_shm_helper+0x194/0x330
   tee_shm_register_user_buf+0x78/0x120
   tee_ioctl+0xd0/0x11a0
   __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xa8/0xec
   invoke_syscall+0x48/0x114

Fix this by adding an an explicit call to access_ok() in
tee_shm_register_user_buf() to catch an invalid user space address
early.

Weakness: CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50080?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-50080?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-50080 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50080 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-50080 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-50080 is a medium-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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50080 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50080/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50080/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50080
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50080
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-50080

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50080/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.