CVE-2022-50325 ASoC: Intel: avs: Fix potential RX buffer overflow

High 7.8 Published Updated

A buffer overflow in the Intel AVSoC driver allows attackers to cause memory corruption, potentially leading to code execution or system crashes.

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-2022-50325?

CVE-2022-50325 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 15 Sep 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:

ASoC: Intel: avs: Fix potential RX buffer overflow

If an event caused firmware to return invalid RX size for LARGE_CONFIG_GET, memcpy_fromio() could end up copying too many bytes. Fix by utilizing min_t().

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50325?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-50325?

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-2022-50325 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50325 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50325, GHSA-657p-3q52-qcrv, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50325.

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