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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2022-49879

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 5/01/2025 11:16:12 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

								
							
							
						
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: fix BUG_ON() when directory entry has invalid rec_len

The rec_len field in the directory entry has to be a multiple of 4.  A
corrupted filesystem image can be used to hit a BUG() in
ext4_rec_len_to_disk(), called from make_indexed_dir().

 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 kernel BUG at fs/ext4/ext4.h:2413!
 ...
 RIP: 0010:make_indexed_dir+0x53f/0x5f0
 ...
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ? add_dirent_to_buf+0x1b2/0x200
  ext4_add_entry+0x36e/0x480
  ext4_add_nondir+0x2b/0xc0
  ext4_create+0x163/0x200
  path_openat+0x635/0xe90
  do_filp_open+0xb4/0x160
  ? __create_object.isra.0+0x1de/0x3b0
  ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x12/0x30
  do_sys_openat2+0x91/0x150
  __x64_sys_open+0x6c/0xa0
  do_syscall_64+0x3c/0x80
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

The fix simply adds a call to ext4_check_dir_entry() to validate the
directory entry, returning -EFSCORRUPTED if the entry is invalid.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/156451a67b93986fb07c274ef6995ff40766c5ad
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17a0bc9bd697f75cfdf9b378d5eb2d7409c91340
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fa24d0274fbf913b56ee31f15bc01168669d909
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/999cff2b6ce3b45c08abf793bf55534777421327
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce1ee2c8827fb6493e91acbd50f664cf2a972c3d