Bug 2373591 (CVE-2022-50015)

Summary:	CVE-2022-50015 kernel: ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda-ipc: Do not process IPC reply before firmware boot
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 12:09:43 UTC

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

ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda-ipc: Do not process IPC reply before firmware boot

It is not yet clear, but it is possible to create a firmware so broken
that it will send a reply message before a FW_READY message (it is not
yet clear if FW_READY will arrive later).
Since the reply_data is allocated only after the FW_READY message, this
will lead to a NULL pointer dereference if not filtered out.

The issue was reported with IPC4 firmware but the same condition is present
for IPC3.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-19 07:35:44 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061833-CVE-2022-50015-4f7f@gregkh/T