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CVE-2022-50439 (GCVE-0-2022-50439)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 11:42 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:19
VLAI
Title
ASoC: mediatek: mt8173: Enable IRQ when pdata is ready
Summary
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
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: ee0bcaff109f36d582df9851f204c9a5eb79c028 , < 190685ff4ee03eef8f12c71d8f626e414fa078a9 (git)
Affected: ee0bcaff109f36d582df9851f204c9a5eb79c028 , < 57491967ad8f865a9a81d08c36b26facd14d84e5 (git)
Affected: ee0bcaff109f36d582df9851f204c9a5eb79c028 , < 27e7cf595d4a9fea9d3906b47d0faa87896beeb3 (git)
Affected: ee0bcaff109f36d582df9851f204c9a5eb79c028 , < 9ce9c78a2bdbc9a014e7102a35834310c28528b9 (git)
Affected: ee0bcaff109f36d582df9851f204c9a5eb79c028 , < 77c6b6be7e80ca4a4d4b66b63fd5bb48ccefdd5a (git)
Affected: ee0bcaff109f36d582df9851f204c9a5eb79c028 , < 4cbb264d4e9136acab2c8fd39e39ab1b1402b84b (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.229 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.163 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.86 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.16 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.2 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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