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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme-pci: fix mempool alloc size Convert the max size to bytes to match the units of the divisor that calculates the worst-case number of PRP entries. The result is used to determine how many PRP Lists are required. The code was previously rounding this to 1 list, but we can require 2 in the worst case. In that scenario, the driver would corrupt memory beyond the size provided by the mempool. While unlikely to occur (you'd need a 4MB in exactly 127 phys segments on a queue that doesn't support SGLs), this memory corruption has been observed by kfence.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-12-24 | Published 2025-12-24 | Updated 2025-12-24 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

943e942e6266f22babee5efeb00f8f672fbff5bd (git) before dfb6d54893d544151e7f480bc44cfe7823f5ad23
affected

943e942e6266f22babee5efeb00f8f672fbff5bd (git) before 9141144b37f30e3e7fa024bcfa0a13011e546ba9
affected

943e942e6266f22babee5efeb00f8f672fbff5bd (git) before e1777b4286e526c58b4ee699344b0ad85aaf83a0
affected

943e942e6266f22babee5efeb00f8f672fbff5bd (git) before b1814724e0d7162bdf4799f2d565381bc2251c63
affected

943e942e6266f22babee5efeb00f8f672fbff5bd (git) before c89a529e823d51dd23c7ec0c047c7a454a428541
affected

Default status
affected

4.18
affected

Any version before 4.18
unaffected

5.10.163 (semver)
unaffected

5.15.87 (semver)
unaffected

6.0.17 (semver)
unaffected

6.1.3 (semver)
unaffected

6.2 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/dfb6d54893d544151e7f480bc44cfe7823f5ad23

git.kernel.org/...c/9141144b37f30e3e7fa024bcfa0a13011e546ba9

git.kernel.org/...c/e1777b4286e526c58b4ee699344b0ad85aaf83a0

git.kernel.org/...c/b1814724e0d7162bdf4799f2d565381bc2251c63

git.kernel.org/...c/c89a529e823d51dd23c7ec0c047c7a454a428541

cve.org (CVE-2022-50756)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2022-50756)

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