CVE-2022-50279

Estado: AnalizadaAlta (7.1)—

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: rtlwifi: Fix global-out-of-bounds bug in _rtl8812ae_phy_set_txpower_limit()

There is a global-out-of-bounds reported by KASAN:

The root cause of the problem is that the comparison order of "prate_section" in _rtl8812ae_phy_set_txpower_limit() is wrong. The _rtl8812ae_eq_n_byte() is used to compare the first n bytes of the two strings from tail to head, which causes the problem. In the _rtl8812ae_phy_set_txpower_limit(), it was originally intended to meet this requirement by carefully designing the comparison order.

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For example, "pregulation" and "pbandwidth" are compared in order of length from small to large, first is 3 and last is 4. However, the comparison order of "prate_section" dose not obey such order requirement, therefore when "prate_section" is "HT", when comparing from tail to head, it will lead to access out of bounds in _rtl8812ae_eq_n_byte(). As mentioned above, the _rtl8812ae_eq_n_byte() has the same function as strcmp(), so just strcmp() is enough.

Fix it by removing _rtl8812ae_eq_n_byte() and use strcmp() barely. Although it can be fixed by adjusting the comparison order of "prate_section", this may cause the value of "rate_section" to not be from 0 to 5. In addition, commit "21e4b0726dc6" not only moved driver from staging to regular tree, but also added setting txpower limit function during the driver config phase, so the problem was introduced by this commit.

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  BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in
  _rtl8812ae_eq_n_byte.part.0+0x3d/0x84 [rtl8821ae]
  Read of size 1 at addr ffffffffa0773c43 by task NetworkManager/411

  CPU: 6 PID: 411 Comm: NetworkManager Tainted: G      D
  6.1.0-rc8+ #144 e15588508517267d37
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009),
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   ...
   kasan_report+0xbb/0x1c0
   _rtl8812ae_eq_n_byte.part.0+0x3d/0x84 [rtl8821ae]
   rtl8821ae_phy_bb_config.cold+0x346/0x641 [rtl8821ae]
   rtl8821ae_hw_init+0x1f5e/0x79b0 [rtl8821ae]
   ...
   </TASK>

CVSS

Versión: 3.1
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Puntuación base: 7.1

Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)

Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.16%
Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 5
Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).

🎯 Técnicas ATT&CK

Cómo se explota esta vulnerabilidad y qué consigue el atacante, en el lenguaje de MITRE ATT&CK.

ExplotaciónT1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalationprivilege escalation75 %
Impacto principalT1059 Command and Scripting Interpreterexecution45 %

AV:L/PR:L sin UI indica escalada local. Out-of-bounds en kernel puede permitir ejecución de código, pero el texto no lo confirma explícitamente; KASAN detectó lectura fuera de límites (CWE-125), potencial para PoC de DoS o ejecución.

Inferido por nuestro agente de análisis a partir de la descripción oficial, el vector CVSS y la CWE, y comprobado por un supervisor. Puede contener errores.

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Tecnologías afectadas (1)

Linux — Linux Kernel

CWE

CWE-125

Referencias

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