# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50131"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T11:02:56.796Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:57:29.234Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50131"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50131.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50131"
title: "HID: mcp2221: prevent a buffer overflow in mcp_smbus_write()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nHID: mcp2221: prevent a buffer overflow in mcp_smbus_write()\n\nSmatch Warning:\ndrivers/hid/hid-mcp2221.c:388 mcp_smbus_write() error: __memcpy()\n'&mcp-\u003etxbuf[5]' too small (59 vs 255)\ndrivers/hid/hid-mcp2221.c:388 mcp_smbus_write() error: __memcpy() 'buf'\ntoo small (34 vs 255)\n\nThe 'len' variable can take a value between 0-255 as it can come from\ndata-\u003eblock[0] and it is user data. So add an bound check to prevent a\nbuffer overflow in memcpy()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"67a95c21463d066060b0f66d65a75d45bb386ffb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"66c8e816f2f2ca4a61b406503bd10bad1b35f72f"},{"version":"67a95c21463d066060b0f66d65a75d45bb386ffb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"91443c669d280937968f0aa4edefa741cfe35314"},{"version":"67a95c21463d066060b0f66d65a75d45bb386ffb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6402116a7b5ec80fa40fd145a80c813019cd555f"},{"version":"67a95c21463d066060b0f66d65a75d45bb386ffb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3c0f8a59f2cc8841ee6653399a77f4f3e6e9a270"},{"version":"67a95c21463d066060b0f66d65a75d45bb386ffb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"62ac2473553a00229e67bdf3cb023b62cf7f5a9a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.7"},{"version":"5.10.137","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.61","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.18.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.18.*"},{"version":"5.19.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.19.*"},{"version":"6.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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