CVE-2022-50485

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via Bad Inode Handling in ext4_iget

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: add EXT4_IGET_BAD flag to prevent unexpected bad inode There are many places that will get unhappy (and crash) when ext4_iget() returns a bad inode. However, if iget the boot loader inode, allows a bad inode to be returned, because the inode may not be initialized. This mechanism can be used to bypass some checks and cause panic. To solve this problem, we add a special iget flag EXT4_IGET_BAD. Only with this flag we'd be returning bad inode from ext4_iget(), otherwise we always return the error code if the inode is bad inode.(suggested by Jan Kara)

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0016
EPSS Percentile 5.4%
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 (20)
linux/Kernel 3.10.0 - 5.4.229linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.87linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.0.18linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.163linux
linux/Kernel 6.1.0 - 6.1.4linux
Linux/Linux < 3.10
Linux/Linux 3.10
Linux/Linux 393d1d1d76933886d5e1ce603214c9987589c6d5 - 2142dfa1de61e25b83198af0308ec7689cca25d3
Linux/Linux 393d1d1d76933886d5e1ce603214c9987589c6d5 - 488a5c2bf7543c3cd3f07a025f2e62be91599430
Linux/Linux 393d1d1d76933886d5e1ce603214c9987589c6d5 - 63b1e9bccb71fe7d7e3ddc9877dbdc85e5d2d023
... and 10 more
Published Oct 04, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026