# CVE-2022-50541: dmaengine: ti: k3-udma: Reset UDMA_CHAN_RT byte counters to prevent overflow

> An integer overflow in the TI K3 UDMA driver causes indefinite hangs during large data transfers, leading to denial of service.

- **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:** 7 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50541, GHSA-wj9m-3v96-8v4j, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2022-50541, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50541

## What is CVE-2022-50541?

CVE-2022-50541 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 7 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:

dmaengine: ti: k3-udma: Reset UDMA_CHAN_RT byte counters to prevent overflow

UDMA_CHAN_RT_*BCNT_REG stores the real-time channel bytecount statistics.
These registers are 32-bit hardware counters and the driver uses these
counters to monitor the operational progress status for a channel, when
transferring more than 4GB of data it was observed that these counters
overflow and completion calculation of a operation gets affected and the
transfer hangs indefinitely.

This commit adds changes to decrease the byte count for every complete
transaction so that these registers never overflow and the proper byte
count statistics is maintained for ongoing transaction by the RT counters.

Earlier uc->bcnt used to maintain a count of the completed bytes at driver
side, since the RT counters maintain the statistics of current transaction
now, the maintenance of uc->bcnt is not necessary.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50541?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-50541?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-50541 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50541 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-50541 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-50541 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 7 Oct 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-2022-50541 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-2022-50541/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50541/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50541
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50541
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-50541

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