cve-2022-49879
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-01 14:10
Modified
2025-05-01 14:10
Severity ?
Summary
ext4: fix BUG_ON() when directory entry has invalid rec_len
Impacted products
LinuxLinux
LinuxLinux
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          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix BUG_ON() when directory entry has invalid rec_len\n\nThe rec_len field in the directory entry has to be a multiple of 4.  A\ncorrupted filesystem image can be used to hit a BUG() in\next4_rec_len_to_disk(), called from make_indexed_dir().\n\n ------------[ cut here ]------------\n kernel BUG at fs/ext4/ext4.h:2413!\n ...\n RIP: 0010:make_indexed_dir+0x53f/0x5f0\n ...\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  ? add_dirent_to_buf+0x1b2/0x200\n  ext4_add_entry+0x36e/0x480\n  ext4_add_nondir+0x2b/0xc0\n  ext4_create+0x163/0x200\n  path_openat+0x635/0xe90\n  do_filp_open+0xb4/0x160\n  ? __create_object.isra.0+0x1de/0x3b0\n  ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x12/0x30\n  do_sys_openat2+0x91/0x150\n  __x64_sys_open+0x6c/0xa0\n  do_syscall_64+0x3c/0x80\n  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0\n\nThe fix simply adds a call to ext4_check_dir_entry() to validate the\ndirectory entry, returning -EFSCORRUPTED if the entry is invalid."
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