CVE Catalog

CVE-2022-49361

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.26%

17th percentile - higher than 17% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the F2FS filesystem in the Linux kernel, additional sanity checks for inline data inodes were added. The issue occurred when an inode had both inline_data and encrypted flags, leading to inline data conversion and page cache pollution, then panic in clear_inode(). The fix adds sanity checks in sanity_check_inode().

Risk Assessment

Corrupted inodes could lead to kernel panic and system instability.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel update containing this fix to prevent panics caused by invalid inodes.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to do sanity check for inline inode Yanming reported a kernel bug in Bugzilla kernel [1], which can be reproduced. The bug message is: The kernel message is shown below: kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:611! Call Trace: evict+0x282/0x4e0 __dentry_kill+0x2b2/0x4d0 dput+0x2dd/0x720 do_renameat2+0x596/0x970 __x64_sys_rename+0x78/0x90 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215895 The bug is due to fuzzed inode has both inline_data and encrypted flags. During f2fs_evict_inode(), as the inode was deleted by rename(), it will cause inline data conversion due to conflicting flags. The page cache will be polluted and the panic will be triggered in clear_inode(). Try fixing the bug by doing more sanity checks for inline data inode in sanity_check_inode().

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