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CVE-2022-49317

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.22%

13th percentile - higher than 13% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the f2fs filesystem has a vulnerability causing an infinite loop when flushing node pages. The issue occurs when I/O operations return EIO errors, leading to a system hang.

Risk Assessment

An attacker or disk failure can trigger an EIO error, causing an infinite loop and system hang, resulting in service unavailability and potential data loss.

Recommendation

Apply a Linux kernel update containing the fix for CVE-2022-49317. If not possible, restrict access to f2fs filesystems and monitor for EIO errors.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: avoid infinite loop to flush node pages xfstests/generic/475 can give EIO all the time which give an infinite loop to flush node page like below. Let's avoid it. [16418.518551] Call Trace: [16418.518553] ? dm_submit_bio+0x48/0x400 [16418.518574] ? submit_bio_checks+0x1ac/0x5a0 [16418.525207] __submit_bio+0x1a9/0x230 [16418.525210] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x29e/0x3c0 [16418.525223] submit_bio_noacct+0xa8/0x2b0 [16418.525226] submit_bio+0x4d/0x130 [16418.525238] __submit_bio+0x49/0x310 [f2fs] [16418.525339] ? bio_add_page+0x6a/0x90 [16418.525344] f2fs_submit_page_bio+0x134/0x1f0 [f2fs] [16418.525365] read_node_page+0x125/0x1b0 [f2fs] [16418.525388] __get_node_page.part.0+0x58/0x3f0 [f2fs] [16418.525409] __get_node_page+0x2f/0x60 [f2fs] [16418.525431] f2fs_get_dnode_of_data+0x423/0x860 [f2fs] [16418.525452] ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20 [16418.525458] ? __mod_memcg_state.part.0+0x2a/0x30 [16418.525465] ? __mod_memcg_lruvec_state+0x27/0x40 [16418.525467] ? __xa_set_mark+0x57/0x70 [16418.525472] f2fs_do_write_data_page+0x10e/0x7b0 [f2fs] [16418.525493] f2fs_write_single_data_page+0x555/0x830 [f2fs] [16418.525514] ? sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x4e/0x90 [16418.525518] ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20 [16418.525523] f2fs_write_cache_pages+0x303/0x880 [f2fs] [16418.525545] ? blk_flush_plug_list+0x47/0x100 [16418.525548] f2fs_write_data_pages+0xfd/0x320 [f2fs] [16418.525569] do_writepages+0xd5/0x210 [16418.525648] filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x7d/0xc0 [16418.525655] filemap_fdatawrite+0x50/0x70 [16418.525658] f2fs_sync_dirty_inodes+0xa4/0x230 [f2fs] [16418.525679] f2fs_write_checkpoint+0x16d/0x1720 [f2fs] [16418.525699] ? ttwu_do_wakeup+0x1c/0x160 [16418.525709] ? ttwu_do_activate+0x6d/0xd0 [16418.525711] ? __wait_for_common+0x11d/0x150 [16418.525715] kill_f2fs_super+0xca/0x100 [f2fs] [16418.525733] deactivate_locked_super+0x3b/0xb0 [16418.525739] deactivate_super+0x40/0x50 [16418.525741] cleanup_mnt+0x139/0x190 [16418.525747] __cleanup_mnt+0x12/0x20 [16418.525749] task_work_run+0x6d/0xa0 [16418.525765] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x1ad/0x1b0 [16418.525771] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x27/0x50 [16418.525774] do_syscall_64+0x48/0xc0 [16418.525776] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

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