CVE-2022-50094 spmi: trace: fix stack-out-of-bound access in SPMI tracing functions
A stack-out-of-bounds read in Linux kernel SPMI tracing functions can cause crashes or leak stack memory.
- 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-2022-50094?
CVE-2022-50094 is a high-severity memory corruption 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:
spmi: trace: fix stack-out-of-bound access in SPMI tracing functions
trace_spmi_write_begin() and trace_spmi_read_end() both call memcpy() with a length of "len + 1". This leads to one extra byte being read beyond the end of the specified buffer. Fix this out-of-bound memory access by using a length of "len" instead.
Here is a KASAN log showing the issue:
BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in trace_event_raw_event_spmi_read_end+0x1d0/0x234 Read of size 2 at addr ffffffc0265b7540 by task [email protected]/1314 ... Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x0/0x3e8 show_stack+0x2c/0x3c dump_stack_lvl+0xdc/0x11c print_address_description+0x74/0x384 kasan_report+0x188/0x268 kasan_check_range+0x270/0x2b0 memcpy+0x90/0xe8 trace_event_raw_event_spmi_read_end+0x1d0/0x234 spmi_read_cmd+0x294/0x3ac spmi_ext_register_readl+0x84/0x9c regmap_spmi_ext_read+0x144/0x1b0 [regmap_spmi] _regmap_raw_read+0x40c/0x754 regmap_raw_read+0x3a0/0x514 regmap_bulk_read+0x418/0x494 adc5_gen3_poll_wait_hs+0xe8/0x1e0 [qcom_spmi_adc5_gen3] ... __arm64_sys_read+0x4c/0x60 invoke_syscall+0x80/0x218 el0_svc_common+0xec/0x1c8 ...
addr ffffffc0265b7540 is located in stack of task [email protected]/1314 at offset 32 in frame: adc5_gen3_poll_wait_hs+0x0/0x1e0 [qcom_spmi_adc5_gen3]
this frame has 1 object: [32, 33) 'status'
Memory state around the buggy address: ffffffc0265b7400: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 ffffffc0265b7480: 04 f3 f3 f3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >ffffffc0265b7500: 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 01 f3 f3 f3 00 00 00 00 ^ ffffffc0265b7580: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ffffffc0265b7600: f1 f1 f1 f1 01 f2 07 f2 f2 f2 01 f3 00 00 00 00 ==================================================================
Weakness: CWE-125
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50094?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2022-50094?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2022-50094 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50094 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50094, GHSA-72wp-jhxv-vv38, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50094.