CVE-2022-50258

wifi: brcmfmac: Fix potential stack-out-of-bounds in brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds()

published September 15, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: brcmfmac: Fix potential stack-out-of-bounds in brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds()

This patch fixes a stack-out-of-bounds read in brcmfmac that occurs

when 'buf' that is not null-terminated is passed as an argument of

strsep() in brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds(). This buffer is filled with a firmware

version string by memcpy() in brcmf_fil_iovar_data_get().

The patch ensures buf is null-terminated.

Found by a modified version of syzkaller.

[ 47.569679][ T1897] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac43236b for chip BCM43236/3

[ 47.582839][ T1897] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_process_clm_blob: no clm_blob available (err=-2), device may have limited channels available

[ 47.601565][ T1897] ==================================================================

[ 47.602574][ T1897] BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in strsep+0x1b2/0x1f0

[ 47.603447][ T1897] Read of size 1 at addr ffffc90001f6f000 by task kworker/0:2/1897

[ 47.604336][ T1897]

[ 47.604621][ T1897] CPU: 0 PID: 1897 Comm: kworker/0:2 Tainted: G O 5.14.0+ #131

[ 47.605617][ T1897] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58e9a3f-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014

[ 47.606907][ T1897] Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event

[ 47.607453][ T1897] Call Trace:

[ 47.607801][ T1897] dump_stack_lvl+0x8e/0xd1

[ 47.608295][ T1897] print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0xf/0x334

[ 47.609009][ T1897] ? strsep+0x1b2/0x1f0

[ 47.609434][ T1897] ? strsep+0x1b2/0x1f0

[ 47.609863][ T1897] kasan_report.cold+0x83/0xdf

[ 47.610366][ T1897] ? strsep+0x1b2/0x1f0

[ 47.610882][ T1897] strsep+0x1b2/0x1f0

[ 47.611300][ T1897] ? brcmf_fil_iovar_data_get+0x3a/0xf0

[ 47.611883][ T1897] brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds+0x995/0xc40

[ 47.612434][ T1897] ? brcmf_c_set_joinpref_default+0x100/0x100

[ 47.613078][ T1897] ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0xa1/0xd0

[ 47.613662][ T1897] ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xb0/0xb0

[ 47.614208][ T1897] ? lock_acquire+0x19d/0x4e0

[ 47.614704][ T1897] ? find_held_lock+0x2d/0x110

[ 47.615236][ T1897] ? brcmf_usb_deq+0x1a7/0x260

[ 47.615741][ T1897] ? brcmf_usb_rx_fill_all+0x5a/0xf0

[ 47.616288][ T1897] brcmf_attach+0x246/0xd40

[ 47.616758][ T1897] ? wiphy_new_nm+0x1703/0x1dd0

[ 47.617280][ T1897] ? kmemdup+0x43/0x50

[ 47.617720][ T1897] brcmf_usb_probe+0x12de/0x1690

[ 47.618244][ T1897] ? brcmf_usbdev_qinit.constprop.0+0x470/0x470

[ 47.618901][ T1897] usb_probe_interface+0x2aa/0x760

[ 47.619429][ T1897] ? usb_probe_device+0x250/0x250

[ 47.619950][ T1897] really_probe+0x205/0xb70

[ 47.620435][ T1897] ? driver_allows_async_probing+0x130/0x130

[ 47.621048][ T1897] __driver_probe_device+0x311/0x4b0

[ 47.621595][ T1897] ? driver_allows_async_probing+0x130/0x130

[ 47.622209][ T1897] driver_probe_device+0x4e/0x150

[ 47.622739][ T1897] __device_attach_driver+0x1cc/0x2a0

[ 47.623287][ T1897] bus_for_each_drv+0x156/0x1d0

[ 47.623796][ T1897] ? bus_rescan_devices+0x30/0x30

[ 47.624309][ T1897] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x273/0x3e0

[ 47.624907][ T1897] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x46/0x160

[ 47.625437][ T1897] __device_attach+0x23f/0x3a0

[ 47.625924][ T1897] ? device_bind_driver+0xd0/0xd0

[ 47.626433][ T1897] ? kobject_uevent_env+0x287/0x14b0

[ 47.627057][ T1897] bus_probe_device+0x1da/0x290

[ 47.627557][ T1897] device_add+0xb7b/0x1eb0

[ 47.628027][ T1897] ? wait_for_completion+0x290/0x290

[ 47.628593][ T1897] ? __fw_devlink_link_to_suppliers+0x5a0/0x5a0

[ 47.629249][ T1897] usb_set_configuration+0xf59/0x16f0

[ 47.629829][ T1897] usb_generic_driver_probe+0x82/0xa0

[ 47.630385][ T1897] usb_probe_device+0xbb/0x250

[ 47.630927][ T1897] ? usb_suspend+0x590/0x590

[ 47.631397][ T1897] really_probe+0x205/0xb70

[ 47.631855][ T1897] ? driver_allows_async_probing+0x130/0x130

[ 47.632469][ T1897] __driver_probe_device+0x311/0x4b0

[ 47.633002][

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The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00168 · 5.9th percentile
Published
2025-09-15T14:02Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 SEP 14:02Z
    wifi: brcmfmac: Fix potential stack-out-of-bounds in brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds()
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