CVE-2022-49031: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: health: afe4403: Fix oob read in afe4403_read_raw KASAN report out-of-bounds read as follows: BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in afe4403_read_raw+0x42e/0x4c0 Read of size 4 at addr ffffffffc02ac638 by task cat/279 Call Trace: afe4403_read_raw iio_read_channel_info dev_attr_show The buggy address belongs to the variable: afe4403_channel_leds+0x18/0xffffffffffffe9e0 This issue can be reproduced by singe command: $ cat /sys/bus/spi/devices/spi0.0/iio\:device0/in_intensity6_raw The array size of afe4403_channel_leds is less than channels, so access with chan->address cause OOB read in afe4403_read_raw. Fix it by moving access before use it.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.8, before 4.9.335 (fixed in 4.9.335); from 4.10, before 4.14.301 (fixed in 4.14.301); from 4.15, before 4.19.268 (fixed in 4.19.268); from 4.20, before 5.4.226 (fixed in 5.4.226); from 5.5, before 5.10.158 (fixed in 5.10.158); from 5.11, before 5.15.82 (fixed in 5.15.82); …

Published 2024-10-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.