5.5

CVE-2022-50016: ASoC: SOF: Intel: cnl: Do not process IPC reply before firmware boot

Analyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50016DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50016
Published 18-06-2025Last modified 15-08-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-50016 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.22%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 2
RHSA-2023:2458RHSA-2023:2951SUSE-SU-2025:02264-1SUSE-SU-2025:02321-1

Timeline

  1. 18-06-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 15-08-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: SOF: Intel: cnl: 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.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.22%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

12%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Increase +0.01 pp

From 0.21% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu117 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ e3105c0ccc3e706584030159b6fde54cab2f8aef, < 230f646085d17a008b609eb8fe8befb8811868f0 | ≥ e3105c0ccc3e706584030159b6fde54cab2f8aef, < acacd9eefd0def5a83244d88e5483b5f38ee7287 | 5.19
  • linux_kernel≥ 5.2, < 5.19.4
Debian1 product
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.19.6-1

3 vendors · 120 products

References

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