{"id":"CVE-2022-50871","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2022-50871","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:39:17.767Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath11k: Fix qmi_msg_handler data structure initialization qmi_msg_handler is required to be null terminated by QMI module.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: ath11k: Fix qmi_msg_handler data structure initialization\n\nqmi_msg_handler is required to be null terminated by QMI module.\nThere might be a case where a handler for a msg id is not present in the\nhandlers array which can lead to infinite loop while searching the handler\nand therefore out of bound access in qmi_invoke_handler().\nHence update the initialization in qmi_msg_handler data structure.\n\nTested-on: IPQ8074 hw2.0 AHB WLAN.HK.2.5.0.1-01100-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1","published":"2025-12-30T13:16:02.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-15T22:17:34.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00153,"percentile":0.04369,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.15%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a10e1530c424bb277b4edc7def0195857a548495","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5d71de448f36e34592f7c81b5e300d3e8dbb735","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed3725e15a154ebebf44e0c34806c57525483f92","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50871","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}