CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-49343

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-02-26 Modified 2026-08-04 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-02-26
Last modified
2026-08-04
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: avoid cycles in directory h-tree A maliciously corrupted filesystem can contain cycles in the h-tree stored inside a directory. That can easily lead to the kernel corrupting tree nodes that were already verified under its hands while doing a node split and consequently accessing unallocated memory. Fix the problem by verifying traversed block numbers are unique.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 4.14.283) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.247) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.198) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.121) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.46) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.17.14) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.18 < 5.18.3)

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