CVE-2022-49993

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 4.9.327 - Integer Overflow in Loop Device Configuration

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: loop: Check for overflow while configuring loop The userspace can configure a loop using an ioctl call, wherein a configuration of type loop_config is passed (see lo_ioctl()'s case on line 1550 of drivers/block/loop.c). This proceeds to call loop_configure() which in turn calls loop_set_status_from_info() (see line 1050 of loop.c), passing &config->info which is of type loop_info64*. This function then sets the appropriate values, like the offset. loop_device has lo_offset of type loff_t (see line 52 of loop.c), which is typdef-chained to long long, whereas loop_info64 has lo_offset of type __u64 (see line 56 of include/uapi/linux/loop.h). The function directly copies offset from info to the device as follows (See line 980 of loop.c): lo->lo_offset = info->lo_offset; This results in an overflow, which triggers a warning in iomap_iter() due to a call to iomap_iter_done() which has: WARN_ON_ONCE(iter->iomap.offset > iter->pos); Thus, check for negative value during loop_set_status_from_info(). Bug report: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=c620fe14aac810396d3c3edc9ad73848bf69a29e

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 11.4%
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 (27)
linux/Kernel 2.6.12 - 4.9.327linux
linux/Kernel 4.10.0 - 4.14.292linux
linux/Kernel 4.15.0 - 4.19.312linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.274linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.64linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.19.6linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.140linux
Linux/Linux < 2.6.12
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 0455bef69028c65065f16bb04635591b2374249b
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 18e28817cb516b39de6281f6db9b0618b2cc7b42
... and 17 more
Published Jun 18, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026