CVE-2022-50551

wifi: brcmfmac: Fix potential shift-out-of-bounds in brcmf_fw_alloc_request()

published October 7, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

wifi: brcmfmac: Fix potential shift-out-of-bounds in brcmf_fw_alloc_request()

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

BIT(chiprev) when a 'chiprev' provided by the device is too large.

It should also not be equal to or greater than BITS_PER_TYPE(u32)

as we do bitwise AND with a u32 variable and BIT(chiprev). The patch

adds a check that makes the function return NULL if that is the case.

Note that the NULL case is later handled by the bus-specific caller,

brcmf_usb_probe_cb() or brcmf_usb_reset_resume(), for example.

Found by a modified version of syzkaller.

UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c

shift exponent 151055786 is too large for 64-bit type 'long unsigned int'

CPU: 0 PID: 1885 Comm: kworker/0:2 Tainted: G O 5.14.0+ #132

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

Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event

Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x7d

ubsan_epilogue+0x5/0x40

__ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds.cold+0x53/0xdb

? lock_chain_count+0x20/0x20

brcmf_fw_alloc_request.cold+0x19/0x3ea

? brcmf_fw_get_firmwares+0x250/0x250

? brcmf_usb_ioctl_resp_wait+0x1a7/0x1f0

brcmf_usb_get_fwname+0x114/0x1a0

? brcmf_usb_reset_resume+0x120/0x120

? number+0x6c4/0x9a0

brcmf_c_process_clm_blob+0x168/0x590

? put_dec+0x90/0x90

? enable_ptr_key_workfn+0x20/0x20

? brcmf_common_pd_remove+0x50/0x50

? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0xa1/0xd0

brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds+0x673/0xc40

? brcmf_c_set_joinpref_default+0x100/0x100

? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0xa1/0xd0

? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xb0/0xb0

? lock_acquire+0x19d/0x4e0

? find_held_lock+0x2d/0x110

? brcmf_usb_deq+0x1cc/0x260

? mark_held_locks+0x9f/0xe0

? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x273/0x3e0

? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x47/0x50

? trace_hardirqs_on+0x1c/0x120

? brcmf_usb_deq+0x1a7/0x260

? brcmf_usb_rx_fill_all+0x5a/0xf0

brcmf_attach+0x246/0xd40

? wiphy_new_nm+0x1476/0x1d50

? kmemdup+0x30/0x40

brcmf_usb_probe+0x12de/0x1690

? brcmf_usbdev_qinit.constprop.0+0x470/0x470

usb_probe_interface+0x25f/0x710

really_probe+0x1be/0xa90

__driver_probe_device+0x2ab/0x460

? usb_match_id.part.0+0x88/0xc0

driver_probe_device+0x49/0x120

__device_attach_driver+0x18a/0x250

? driver_allows_async_probing+0x120/0x120

bus_for_each_drv+0x123/0x1a0

? bus_rescan_devices+0x20/0x20

? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x273/0x3e0

? trace_hardirqs_on+0x1c/0x120

__device_attach+0x207/0x330

? device_bind_driver+0xb0/0xb0

? kobject_uevent_env+0x230/0x12c0

bus_probe_device+0x1a2/0x260

device_add+0xa61/0x1ce0

? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0xe7/0x660

? __fw_devlink_link_to_suppliers+0x550/0x550

usb_set_configuration+0x984/0x1770

? kernfs_create_link+0x175/0x230

usb_generic_driver_probe+0x69/0x90

usb_probe_device+0x9c/0x220

really_probe+0x1be/0xa90

__driver_probe_device+0x2ab/0x460

driver_probe_device+0x49/0x120

__device_attach_driver+0x18a/0x250

? driver_allows_async_probing+0x120/0x120

bus_for_each_drv+0x123/0x1a0

? bus_rescan_devices+0x20/0x20

? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x273/0x3e0

? trace_hardirqs_on+0x1c/0x120

__device_attach+0x207/0x330

? device_bind_driver+0xb0/0xb0

? kobject_uevent_env+0x230/0x12c0

bus_probe_device+0x1a2/0x260

device_add+0xa61/0x1ce0

? __fw_devlink_link_to_suppliers+0x550/0x550

usb_new_device.cold+0x463/0xf66

? hub_disconnect+0x400/0x400

? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x24/0x30

hub_event+0x10d5/0x3330

? hub_port_debounce+0x280/0x280

? __lock_acquire+0x1671/0x5790

? wq_calc_node_cpumask+0x170/0x2a0

? lock_release+0x640/0x640

? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0xa1/0xd0

? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xb0/0xb0

? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x273/0x3e0

process_one_work+0x873/0x13e0

? lock_release+0x640/0x640

? pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0x320/0x320

? rwlock_bug.part.0+0x90/0x90

worker_thread+0x8b/0xd10

? __kthread_parkme+0xd9/0x1d0

? pr

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The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00218 · 11.6th percentile
Published
2025-10-07T15:21Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 OCT 15:21Z
    wifi: brcmfmac: Fix potential shift-out-of-bounds in brcmf_fw_alloc_request()
    cvelistv5