CVE-2022-50439 ASoC: mediatek: mt8173: Enable IRQ when pdata is ready

What is CVE-2022-50439?

CVE-2022-50439 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 Oct 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: mediatek: mt8173: Enable IRQ when pdata is ready

If the device does not come straight from reset, we might receive an IRQ before we are ready to handle it.

[ 2.334737] Unable to handle kernel read from unreadable memory at virtual address 00000000000001e4 [ 2.522601] Call trace: [ 2.525040] regmap_read+0x1c/0x80 [ 2.528434] mt8173_afe_irq_handler+0x40/0xf0 ... [ 2.598921] start_kernel+0x338/0x42c

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50439?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-50439?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2022-50439 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50439 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

• CVE-2026-53266 Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2013-6282 Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

All Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50439, GHSA-xx9v-q9cc-wq54, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50439.