CVE-2022-50299
Published: Sep 15, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md: Replace snprintf with scnprintf Current code produces a warning as shown below when total characters in the constituent block device names plus the slashes exceeds 200. snprintf() returns the number of characters generated from the given input, which could cause the expression “200 – len” to wrap around to a large positive number. Fix this by using scnprintf() instead, which returns the actual number of characters written into the buffer. [ 1513.267938] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 1513.267943] WARNING: CPU: 15 PID: 37247 at <snip>/lib/vsprintf.c:2509 vsnprintf+0x2c8/0x510 [ 1513.267944] Modules linked in: <snip> [ 1513.267969] CPU: 15 PID: 37247 Comm: mdadm Not tainted 5.4.0-1085-azure #90~18.04.1-Ubuntu [ 1513.267969] Hardware name: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine/Virtual Machine, BIOS Hyper-V UEFI Release v4.1 05/09/2022 [ 1513.267971] RIP: 0010:vsnprintf+0x2c8/0x510 <-snip-> [ 1513.267982] Call Trace: [ 1513.267986] snprintf+0x45/0x70 [ 1513.267990] ? disk_name+0x71/0xa0 [ 1513.267993] dump_zones+0x114/0x240 [raid0] [ 1513.267996] ? _cond_resched+0x19/0x40 [ 1513.267998] raid0_run+0x19e/0x270 [raid0] [ 1513.268000] md_run+0x5e0/0xc50 [ 1513.268003] ? security_capable+0x3f/0x60 [ 1513.268005] do_md_run+0x19/0x110 [ 1513.268006] md_ioctl+0x195e/0x1f90 [ 1513.268007] blkdev_ioctl+0x91f/0x9f0 [ 1513.268010] block_ioctl+0x3d/0x50 [ 1513.268012] do_vfs_ioctl+0xa9/0x640 [ 1513.268014] ? __fput+0x162/0x260 [ 1513.268016] ksys_ioctl+0x75/0x80 [ 1513.268017] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x1a/0x20 [ 1513.268019] do_syscall_64+0x5e/0x200 [ 1513.268021] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 766038846e875740cf4c20dfc5d5b292ba47360a - < 3b0a2bd51f60418ecd67493586a2bb2174199de3affected 766038846e875740cf4c20dfc5d5b292ba47360a - < 897b1450abe5a67c842a5d24173ce4449ccdfa94affected 766038846e875740cf4c20dfc5d5b292ba47360a - < 97238b88583c27c9d3b4a0cedb45f816523f17c3affected 766038846e875740cf4c20dfc5d5b292ba47360a - < 76694e9ce0b2238c0a5f3ba54f9361dd3770ec78affected 766038846e875740cf4c20dfc5d5b292ba47360a - < 5d8259c9d1915a50c60c7d6e9e7fb9b7da64a175+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 4.10unaffected 0 - < 4.10unaffected 4.14.296 - <= 4.14.*unaffected 4.19.262 - <= 4.19.*unaffected 5.4.220 - <= 5.4.*+5 more versions |
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