CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-50205

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-06-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext2: Add more validity checks for inode counts Add checks verifying number of inodes stored in the superblock matches the number computed from number of inodes per group. Also verify we have at least one block worth of inodes per group. This prevents crashes on corrupted filesystems.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 4.14.291) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.256) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.211) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.137) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.61) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.18.18) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.19 < 5.19.2)

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