CVE-2022-50293

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 5.15.86, 5.16.0-6.0.16, 6.1.0-6.1.2 - Denial of Service via BUG_ON in btrfs_drop_extents

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: do not BUG_ON() on ENOMEM when dropping extent items for a range If we get -ENOMEM while dropping file extent items in a given range, at btrfs_drop_extents(), due to failure to allocate memory when attempting to increment the reference count for an extent or drop the reference count, we handle it with a BUG_ON(). This is excessive, instead we can simply abort the transaction and return the error to the caller. In fact most callers of btrfs_drop_extents(), directly or indirectly, already abort the transaction if btrfs_drop_extents() returns any error. Also, we already have error paths at btrfs_drop_extents() that may return -ENOMEM and in those cases we abort the transaction, like for example anything that changes the b+tree may return -ENOMEM due to a failure to allocate a new extent buffer when COWing an existing extent buffer, such as a call to btrfs_duplicate_item() for example. So replace the BUG_ON() calls with proper logic to abort the transaction and return the error.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 4.1%
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-617
Status published
Products (14)
linux/Kernel 2.6.29 - 5.15.86linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.0.16linux
linux/Kernel 6.1.0 - 6.1.2linux
Linux/Linux < 2.6.29
Linux/Linux 2.6.29
Linux/Linux 39279cc3d2704cfbf9c35dcb5bdd392159ae4625 - 162d053e15fe985f754ef495a96eb3db970c43ed
Linux/Linux 39279cc3d2704cfbf9c35dcb5bdd392159ae4625 - 1baf3370e2dc5e6bd1368348736189457dab2a27
Linux/Linux 39279cc3d2704cfbf9c35dcb5bdd392159ae4625 - 50f993da945074b2a069da099a0331b23a0c89a0
Linux/Linux 39279cc3d2704cfbf9c35dcb5bdd392159ae4625 - 7fbcb635c8fc927d139f3302babcf1b42c09265c
Linux/Linux 5.15.86 - 5.15.*
... and 4 more
Published Sep 15, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026