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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-50279" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:21:16.051Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:16:15.535Z" 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-2022-50279" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50279.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50279" title: "wifi: rtlwifi: Fix global-out-of-bounds bug in _rtl8812ae_phy_set_txpower_limit()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: rtlwifi: Fix global-out-of-bounds bug in _rtl8812ae_phy_set_txpower_limit()\n\nThere is a global-out-of-bounds reported by KASAN:\n\n BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in\n _rtl8812ae_eq_n_byte.part.0+0x3d/0x84 [rtl8821ae]\n Read of size 1 at addr ffffffffa0773c43 by task NetworkManager/411\n\n CPU: 6 PID: 411 Comm: NetworkManager Tainted: G D\n 6.1.0-rc8+ #144 e15588508517267d37\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009),\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ...\n kasan_report+0xbb/0x1c0\n _rtl8812ae_eq_n_byte.part.0+0x3d/0x84 [rtl8821ae]\n rtl8821ae_phy_bb_config.cold+0x346/0x641 [rtl8821ae]\n rtl8821ae_hw_init+0x1f5e/0x79b0 [rtl8821ae]\n ...\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nThe root cause of the problem is that the comparison order of\n\"prate_section\" in _rtl8812ae_phy_set_txpower_limit() is wrong. The\n_rtl8812ae_eq_n_byte() is used to compare the first n bytes of the two\nstrings from tail to head, which causes the problem. In the\n_rtl8812ae_phy_set_txpower_limit(), it was originally intended to meet\nthis requirement by carefully designing the comparison order.\nFor example, \"pregulation\" and \"pbandwidth\" are compared in order of\nlength from small to large, first is 3 and last is 4. However, the\ncomparison order of \"prate_section\" dose not obey such order requirement,\ntherefore when \"prate_section\" is \"HT\", when comparing from tail to head,\nit will lead to access out of bounds in _rtl8812ae_eq_n_byte(). As\nmentioned above, the _rtl8812ae_eq_n_byte() has the same function as\nstrcmp(), so just strcmp() is enough.\n\nFix it by removing _rtl8812ae_eq_n_byte() and use strcmp() barely.\nAlthough it can be fixed by adjusting the comparison order of\n\"prate_section\", this may cause the value of \"rate_section\" to not be\nfrom 0 to 5. In addition, commit \"21e4b0726dc6\" not only moved driver\nfrom staging to regular tree, but also added setting txpower limit\nfunction during the driver config phase, so the problem was introduced\nby this commit." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"21e4b0726dc671c423e2dc9a85364716219c4502","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fc3442247716fc426bbcf62ed65e086e48a6d44f"},{"version":"21e4b0726dc671c423e2dc9a85364716219c4502","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"28ea268d95e57cdf6394a058f0d854206d478772"},{"version":"21e4b0726dc671c423e2dc9a85364716219c4502","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1e950b9a841bc96e98ee25680d5c7aa305120be1"},{"version":"21e4b0726dc671c423e2dc9a85364716219c4502","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0c962dcd6bf64b78eaffc09e497a2beb4e48bc32"},{"version":"21e4b0726dc671c423e2dc9a85364716219c4502","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f1fe40120de6ad4ffa8299fde035a5feba10d4fb"},{"version":"21e4b0726dc671c423e2dc9a85364716219c4502","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"057b52461dc005ecd85a3e4998913b1492ec0f72"},{"version":"21e4b0726dc671c423e2dc9a85364716219c4502","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"117dbeda22ec5ea0918254d03b540ef8b8a64d53"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.18"},{"version":"4.19.276","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.235","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.173","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.99","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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