# 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-2022-50709"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-24T10:55:23.194Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:23:58.844Z"
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-2022-50709"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50709.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50709"
title: "wifi: ath9k: avoid uninit memory read in ath9k_htc_rx_msg()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: ath9k: avoid uninit memory read in ath9k_htc_rx_msg()\n\nsyzbot is reporting uninit value at ath9k_htc_rx_msg() [1], for\nioctl(USB_RAW_IOCTL_EP_WRITE) can call ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream() with\npkt_len = 0 but ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream() uses\n__dev_alloc_skb(pkt_len + 32, GFP_ATOMIC) based on an assumption that\npkt_len is valid. As a result, ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream() allocates skb\nwith uninitialized memory and ath9k_htc_rx_msg() is reading from\nuninitialized memory.\n\nSince bytes accessed by ath9k_htc_rx_msg() is not known until\nath9k_htc_rx_msg() is called, it would be difficult to check minimal valid\npkt_len at \"if (pkt_len \u003e 2 * MAX_RX_BUF_SIZE) {\" line in\nath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream().\n\nWe have two choices. One is to workaround by adding __GFP_ZERO so that\nath9k_htc_rx_msg() sees 0 if pkt_len is invalid. The other is to let\nath9k_htc_rx_msg() validate pkt_len before accessing. This patch chose\nthe latter.\n\nNote that I'm not sure threshold condition is correct, for I can't find\ndetails on possible packet length used by this protocol."
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