CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50057
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-06-18
- 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-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs/ntfs3: Fix NULL deref in ntfs_update_mftmirr
If ntfs_fill_super() wasn't called then sbi->sb will be equal to NULL.
Code should check this ptr before dereferencing. Syzbot hit this issue
via passing wrong mount param as can be seen from log below
Fail log:
ntfs3: Unknown parameter 'iochvrset'
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000003: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f]
CPU: 1 PID: 3589 Comm: syz-executor210 Not tainted 5.18.0-rc3-syzkaller-00016-gb253435746d9 #0
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
put_ntfs+0x1ed/0x2a0 fs/ntfs3/super.c:463
ntfs_fs_free+0x6a/0xe0 fs/ntfs3/super.c:1363
put_fs_context+0x119/0x7a0 fs/fs_context.c:469
do_new_mount+0x2b4/0xad0 fs/namespace.c:3044
do_mount fs/namespace.c:3383 [inline]
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3591 [inline]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15 < 5.15.63)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.19.4)
• linux linux kernel 6.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness