CVE-2022-49428

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 4.1-5.15.46, 5.16.0-5.17.14, 5.18.0-5.18.3 - NULL Pointer Dereference in F2FS Inline Dots Inode Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to do sanity check on inline_dots inode As Wenqing reported in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215765 It will cause a kernel panic with steps: - mkdir mnt - mount tmp40.img mnt - ls mnt folio_mark_dirty+0x33/0x50 f2fs_add_regular_entry+0x541/0xad0 [f2fs] f2fs_add_dentry+0x6c/0xb0 [f2fs] f2fs_do_add_link+0x182/0x230 [f2fs] __recover_dot_dentries+0x2d6/0x470 [f2fs] f2fs_lookup+0x5af/0x6a0 [f2fs] __lookup_slow+0xac/0x200 lookup_slow+0x45/0x70 walk_component+0x16c/0x250 path_lookupat+0x8b/0x1f0 filename_lookup+0xef/0x250 user_path_at_empty+0x46/0x70 vfs_statx+0x98/0x190 __do_sys_newlstat+0x41/0x90 __x64_sys_newlstat+0x1a/0x30 do_syscall_64+0x37/0xb0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae The root cause is for special file: e.g. character, block, fifo or socket file, f2fs doesn't assign address space operations pointer array for mapping->a_ops field, so, in a fuzzed image, if inline_dots flag was tagged in special file, during lookup(), when f2fs runs into __recover_dot_dentries(), it will cause NULL pointer access once f2fs_add_regular_entry() calls a_ops->set_dirty_page().

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 15.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (14)
linux/Kernel 4.1.0 - 5.15.46linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.17.14linux
linux/Kernel 5.18.0 - 5.18.3linux
Linux/Linux < 4.1
Linux/Linux 4.1
Linux/Linux 5.15.46 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.17.14 - 5.17.*
Linux/Linux 5.18.3 - 5.18.*
Linux/Linux 5.19
Linux/Linux 510022a85839a8409d1e6a519bb86ce71a84f30a - 12662d19467b391b5b509ac5e9ab4f583c6dde16
... and 4 more
Published Feb 26, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026