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Tracker / CVE-2022-49343

CVE-2022-49343

High 7.8

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: avoid cycles in directory h-tree A maliciously corrupted filesystem can contain cycles in the h-tree stored inside a directory. That can easily lead to the kernel corrupting tree nodes that were already verified under its hands while doing a node split and consequently accessing unallocated memory. Fix the problem by verifying traversed block numbers are unique.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 4.14.283
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.247
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.198
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.46
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 5.17.14
linux linux_kernel · 5.18 → 5.18.3
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.121

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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