CVE-2022-49348

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.10-5.10.120, 5.11-5.15.45, 5.16-5.17.13, 5.18-5.18.2 - Denial of Service via Malicious EXT4 Superblock

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: filter out EXT4_FC_REPLAY from on-disk superblock field s_state The EXT4_FC_REPLAY bit in sbi->s_mount_state is used to indicate that we are in the middle of replay the fast commit journal. This was actually a mistake, since the sbi->s_mount_info is initialized from es->s_state. Arguably s_mount_state is misleadingly named, but the name is historical --- s_mount_state and s_state dates back to ext2. What should have been used is the ext4_{set,clear,test}_mount_flag() inline functions, which sets EXT4_MF_* bits in sbi->s_mount_flags. The problem with using EXT4_FC_REPLAY is that a maliciously corrupted superblock could result in EXT4_FC_REPLAY getting set in s_mount_state. This bypasses some sanity checks, and this can trigger a BUG() in ext4_es_cache_extent(). As a easy-to-backport-fix, filter out the EXT4_FC_REPLAY bit for now. We should eventually transition away from EXT4_FC_REPLAY to something like EXT4_MF_REPLAY.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0028
EPSS Percentile 20.2%
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 (17)
linux/Kernel 5.10.0 - 5.10.121linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.46linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.17.14linux
linux/Kernel 5.18.0 - 5.18.3linux
Linux/Linux < 5.10
Linux/Linux 5.10
Linux/Linux 5.10.121 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.46 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.17.14 - 5.17.*
Linux/Linux 5.18.3 - 5.18.*
... and 7 more
Published Feb 26, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026