CVE-2022-50437

Updated on 01 Oct 2025

Severity

7.8 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.8
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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

drm/msm/hdmi: fix memory corruption with too many bridges

Add the missing sanity check on the bridge counter to avoid corrupting data beyond the fixed-sized bridge array in case there are ever more than eight bridges.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/502670/

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 4.18.0 (+9 more)

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

drm/msm/hdmi: fix memory corruption with too many bridges

Add the missing sanity check on the bridge counter to avoid corrupting data beyond the fixed-sized bridge array in case there are ever more than eight bridges.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/502670/

Fixes