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FKIE_CVE-2022-50239

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-09-15 14:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:23

Severity

7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: qcom: fix writes in read-only memory region This commit fixes a kernel oops because of a write in some read-only memory: [ 9.068287] Unable to handle kernel write to read-only memory at virtual address ffff800009240ad8 ..snip.. [ 9.138790] Internal error: Oops: 9600004f [#1] PREEMPT SMP ..snip.. [ 9.269161] Call trace: [ 9.276271] __memcpy+0x5c/0x230 [ 9.278531] snprintf+0x58/0x80 [ 9.282002] qcom_cpufreq_msm8939_name_version+0xb4/0x190 [ 9.284869] qcom_cpufreq_probe+0xc8/0x39c ..snip.. The following line defines a pointer that point to a char buffer stored in read-only memory: char *pvs_name = "speedXX-pvsXX-vXX"; This pointer is meant to hold a template "speedXX-pvsXX-vXX" where the XX values get overridden by the qcom_cpufreq_krait_name_version function. Since the template is actually stored in read-only memory, when the function executes the following call we get an oops: snprintf(*pvs_name, sizeof("speedXX-pvsXX-vXX"), "speed%d-pvs%d-v%d", speed, pvs, pvs_ver); To fix this issue, we instead store the template name onto the stack by using the following syntax: char pvs_name_buffer[] = "speedXX-pvsXX-vXX"; Because the `pvs_name` needs to be able to be assigned to NULL, the template buffer is stored in the pvs_name_buffer and not under the pvs_name variable.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01039fb8e90c9cb684430414bff70cea9eb168c5	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14d260f94ff89543597ffea13db8b277a810e08e	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/794ded0bc461287a268bed21fea2eebb6e5d232c	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b74ee4e301ca01e431e240c046173332966e2431	Patch

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	6.1

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CVE-2022-50239 (GCVE-0-2022-50239)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-15 14:01 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:15

Title

cpufreq: qcom: fix writes in read-only memory region

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/794ded0bc461287a2…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14d260f94ff895435…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b74ee4e301ca01e43…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01039fb8e90c9cb68…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: a8811ec764f95a04ba82f6f457e28c5e9e36e36b , < 794ded0bc461287a268bed21fea2eebb6e5d232c (git) Affected: a8811ec764f95a04ba82f6f457e28c5e9e36e36b , < 14d260f94ff89543597ffea13db8b277a810e08e (git) Affected: a8811ec764f95a04ba82f6f457e28c5e9e36e36b , < b74ee4e301ca01e431e240c046173332966e2431 (git) Affected: a8811ec764f95a04ba82f6f457e28c5e9e36e36b , < 01039fb8e90c9cb684430414bff70cea9eb168c5 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.7 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.7 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.152 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.76 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.0.6 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2022-50239 (GCVE-0-2022-50239)

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