CVE-2022-49792 (GCVE-0-2022-49792)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-01 14:09 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:56
VLAI
Title
iio: adc: mp2629: fix potential array out of bound access
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: adc: mp2629: fix potential array out of bound access Add sentinel at end of maps to avoid potential array out of bound access in iio core.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 7abd9fb6468225f5c7f83149ce279cc1a912a68a , < d95b85c5084ad70011988861ee864529eefa1da0 (git)
Affected: 7abd9fb6468225f5c7f83149ce279cc1a912a68a , < 1678d4abb2dc2ca3b05b998a9d88616976e4f947 (git)
Affected: 7abd9fb6468225f5c7f83149ce279cc1a912a68a , < 399b2105a2240e730b9f3880bd8f154247539aa7 (git)
Affected: 7abd9fb6468225f5c7f83149ce279cc1a912a68a , < ca1547ab15f48dc81624183ae17a2fd1bad06dfc (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.156 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.80 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.10 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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