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Tracker / CVE-2022-50205

CVE-2022-50205

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext2: Add more validity checks for inode counts Add checks verifying number of inodes stored in the superblock matches the number computed from number of inodes per group. Also verify we have at least one block worth of inodes per group. This prevents crashes on corrupted filesystems.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 4.14.291
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.256
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.211
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.61
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 5.18.18
linux linux_kernel · 5.19 → 5.19.2
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.137

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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