CVE-2022-50508 wifi: mt76: mt76x0: fix oob access in mt76x0_phy_get_target_power

What is CVE-2022-50508?

CVE-2022-50508 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 4 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:

wifi: mt76: mt76x0: fix oob access in mt76x0_phy_get_target_power

After 'commit ba45841ca5eb ("wifi: mt76: mt76x02: simplify struct mt76x02_rate_power")', mt76x02 relies on ht[0-7] rate_power data for vht mcs{0,7}, while it uses vth[0-1] rate_power for vht mcs {8,9}. Fix a possible out-of-bound access in mt76x0_phy_get_target_power routine.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50508?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-50508?

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-2022-50508 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50508 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50508, GHSA-gjgv-497v-vq7g, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50508.