CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49879
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-05-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-617
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: fix BUG_ON() when directory entry has invalid rec_len
The rec_len field in the directory entry has to be a multiple of 4. A
corrupted filesystem image can be used to hit a BUG() in
ext4_rec_len_to_disk(), called from make_indexed_dir().
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kernel BUG at fs/ext4/ext4.h:2413!
...
RIP: 0010:make_indexed_dir+0x53f/0x5f0
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? add_dirent_to_buf+0x1b2/0x200
ext4_add_entry+0x36e/0x480
ext4_add_nondir+0x2b/0xc0
ext4_create+0x163/0x200
path_openat+0x635/0xe90
do_filp_open+0xb4/0x160
? __create_object.isra.0+0x1de/0x3b0
? _raw_spin_unlock+0x12/0x30
do_sys_openat2+0x91/0x150
__x64_sys_open+0x6c/0xa0
do_syscall_64+0x3c/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
The fix simply adds a call to ext4_check_dir_entry() to validate the
directory entry, returning -EFSCORRUPTED if the entry is invalid.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.4.224)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.154)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.78)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.0.8)
• linux linux kernel 6.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-617 Reachable Assertion weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/156451a67b93986fb07c274ef6995ff40766c5ad Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17a0bc9bd697f75cfdf9b378d5eb2d7409c91340 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fa24d0274fbf913b56ee31f15bc01168669d909 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/999cff2b6ce3b45c08abf793bf55534777421327 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce1ee2c8827fb6493e91acbd50f664cf2a972c3d Patch