CVE-2022-49166

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via NTFS Allocation Size Sanity Check Bypass

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: add sanity check on allocation size ntfs_read_inode_mount invokes ntfs_malloc_nofs with zero allocation size. It triggers one BUG in the __ntfs_malloc function. Fix this by adding sanity check on ni->attr_list_size.

References (9)

Core 9

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0026
EPSS Percentile 18.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (29)
linux/Kernel 2.6.12 - 4.9.311linux
linux/Kernel 4.10.0 - 4.14.276linux
linux/Kernel 4.15.0 - 4.19.238linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.189linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.33linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.16.19linux
linux/Kernel 5.17.0 - 5.17.2linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.110linux
Linux/Linux < 2.6.12
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 07793d2e55563124108762f4e5f811db92ffe02f
... and 19 more
Published Feb 26, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026