CVE-2022-49993
Published: Jun 18, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: loop: Check for overflow while configuring loop The userspace can configure a loop using an ioctl call, wherein a configuration of type loop_config is passed (see lo_ioctl()'s case on line 1550 of drivers/block/loop.c). This proceeds to call loop_configure() which in turn calls loop_set_status_from_info() (see line 1050 of loop.c), passing &config->info which is of type loop_info64*. This function then sets the appropriate values, like the offset. loop_device has lo_offset of type loff_t (see line 52 of loop.c), which is typdef-chained to long long, whereas loop_info64 has lo_offset of type __u64 (see line 56 of include/uapi/linux/loop.h). The function directly copies offset from info to the device as follows (See line 980 of loop.c): lo->lo_offset = info->lo_offset; This results in an overflow, which triggers a warning in iomap_iter() due to a call to iomap_iter_done() which has: WARN_ON_ONCE(iter->iomap.offset > iter->pos); Thus, check for negative value during loop_set_status_from_info(). Bug report: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=c620fe14aac810396d3c3edc9ad73848bf69a29e
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 18e28817cb516b39de6281f6db9b0618b2cc7b42affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < adf0112d9b8acb03485624220b4934f69bf13369affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < a217715338fd48f72114725aa7a40e484a781ca7affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < b40877b8562c5720d0a7fce20729f56b75a3dedeaffected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 6858933131d0dadac071c4d33335a9ea4b8e76cf+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 2.6.12unaffected 0 - < 2.6.12unaffected 4.9.327 - <= 4.9.*unaffected 4.14.292 - <= 4.14.*unaffected 4.19.312 - <= 4.19.*+5 more versions |
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