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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50231"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T11:04:07.315Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:57:48.307Z"
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-2022-50231"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50231.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50231"
title: "crypto: arm64/poly1305 - fix a read out-of-bound"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncrypto: arm64/poly1305 - fix a read out-of-bound\n\nA kasan error was reported during fuzzing:\n\nBUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in neon_poly1305_blocks.constprop.0+0x1b4/0x250 [poly1305_neon]\nRead of size 4 at addr ffff0010e293f010 by task syz-executor.5/1646715\nCPU: 4 PID: 1646715 Comm: syz-executor.5 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.10.0.aarch64 #1\nHardware name: Huawei TaiShan 2280 /BC11SPCD, BIOS 1.59 01/31/2019\nCall trace:\n dump_backtrace+0x0/0x394\n show_stack+0x34/0x4c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:196\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]\n dump_stack+0x158/0x1e4 lib/dump_stack.c:118\n print_address_description.constprop.0+0x68/0x204 mm/kasan/report.c:387\n __kasan_report+0xe0/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:547\n kasan_report+0x44/0xe0 mm/kasan/report.c:564\n check_memory_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:187 [inline]\n __asan_load4+0x94/0xd0 mm/kasan/generic.c:252\n neon_poly1305_blocks.constprop.0+0x1b4/0x250 [poly1305_neon]\n neon_poly1305_do_update+0x6c/0x15c [poly1305_neon]\n neon_poly1305_update+0x9c/0x1c4 [poly1305_neon]\n crypto_shash_update crypto/shash.c:131 [inline]\n shash_finup_unaligned+0x84/0x15c crypto/shash.c:179\n crypto_shash_finup+0x8c/0x140 crypto/shash.c:193\n shash_digest_unaligned+0xb8/0xe4 crypto/shash.c:201\n crypto_shash_digest+0xa4/0xfc crypto/shash.c:217\n crypto_shash_tfm_digest+0xb4/0x150 crypto/shash.c:229\n essiv_skcipher_setkey+0x164/0x200 [essiv]\n crypto_skcipher_setkey+0xb0/0x160 crypto/skcipher.c:612\n skcipher_setkey+0x3c/0x50 crypto/algif_skcipher.c:305\n alg_setkey+0x114/0x2a0 crypto/af_alg.c:220\n alg_setsockopt+0x19c/0x210 crypto/af_alg.c:253\n __sys_setsockopt+0x190/0x2e0 net/socket.c:2123\n __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2134 [inline]\n __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2131 [inline]\n __arm64_sys_setsockopt+0x78/0x94 net/socket.c:2131\n __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:36 [inline]\n invoke_syscall+0x64/0x100 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:48\n el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x220/0x230 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:155\n do_el0_svc+0xb4/0xd4 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:217\n el0_svc+0x24/0x3c arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:353\n el0_sync_handler+0x160/0x164 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:369\n el0_sync+0x160/0x180 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:683\n\nThis error can be reproduced by the following code compiled as ko on a\nsystem with kasan enabled:\n\n#include \u003clinux/module.h\u003e\n#include \u003clinux/crypto.h\u003e\n#include \u003ccrypto/hash.h\u003e\n#include \u003ccrypto/poly1305.h\u003e\n\nchar test_data[] = \"\\x00\\x01\\x02\\x03\\x04\\x05\\x06\\x07\"\n                   \"\\x08\\x09\\x0a\\x0b\\x0c\\x0d\\x0e\\x0f\"\n                   \"\\x10\\x11\\x12\\x13\\x14\\x15\\x16\\x17\"\n                   \"\\x18\\x19\\x1a\\x1b\\x1c\\x1d\\x1e\";\n\nint init(void)\n{\n        struct crypto_shash *tfm = NULL;\n        char *data = NULL, *out = NULL;\n\n        tfm = crypto_alloc_shash(\"poly1305\", 0, 0);\n        data = kmalloc(POLY1305_KEY_SIZE - 1, GFP_KERNEL);\n        out = kmalloc(POLY1305_DIGEST_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);\n        memcpy(data, test_data, POLY1305_KEY_SIZE - 1);\n        crypto_shash_tfm_digest(tfm, data, POLY1305_KEY_SIZE - 1, out);\n\n        kfree(data);\n        kfree(out);\n        return 0;\n}\n\nvoid deinit(void)\n{\n}\n\nmodule_init(init)\nmodule_exit(deinit)\nMODULE_LICENSE(\"GPL\");\n\nThe root cause of the bug sits in neon_poly1305_blocks. The logic\nneon_poly1305_blocks() performed is that if it was called with both s[]\nand r[] uninitialized, it will first try to initialize them with the\ndata from the first \"block\" that it believed to be 32 bytes in length.\nFirst 16 bytes are used as the key and the next 16 bytes for s[]. This\nwould lead to the aforementioned read out-of-bound. However, after\ncalling poly1305_init_arch(), only 16 bytes were deducted from the input\nand s[] is initialized yet again with the following 16 bytes. The second\ninitialization of s[] is certainly redundent which indicates that the\nfirst initialization should be for r[] only.\n\nThis patch fixes the issue by calling poly1305_init_arm64() instead o\n---truncated---"
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