CVE-2022-50439: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: mediatek: mt8173: Enable IRQ when pdata is ready If the device does not come straight from reset, we might receive an IRQ before we are ready to handle it. [ 2.334737] Unable to handle kernel read from unreadable memory at virtual address 00000000000001e4 [ 2.522601] Call trace: [ 2.525040] regmap_read+0x1c/0x80 [ 2.528434] mt8173_afe_irq_handler+0x40/0xf0 ... [ 2.598921] start_kernel+0x338/0x42c

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.2, before 5.4.229 (fixed in 5.4.229); from 5.5, before 5.10.163 (fixed in 5.10.163); from 5.11, before 5.15.86 (fixed in 5.15.86); from 5.16, before 6.0.16 (fixed in 6.0.16); from 6.1, before 6.1.2 (fixed in 6.1.2)

Published 2025-10-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.