CVE-2022-50428
Published: Oct 1, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix off-by-one errors in fast-commit block filling Due to several different off-by-one errors, or perhaps due to a late change in design that wasn't fully reflected in the code that was actually merged, there are several very strange constraints on how fast-commit blocks are filled with tlv entries: - tlvs must start at least 10 bytes before the end of the block, even though the minimum tlv length is 8. Otherwise, the replay code will ignore them. (BUG: ext4_fc_reserve_space() could violate this requirement if called with a len of blocksize - 9 or blocksize - 8. Fortunately, this doesn't seem to happen currently.) - tlvs must end at least 1 byte before the end of the block. Otherwise the replay code will consider them to be invalid. This quirk contributed to a bug (fixed by an earlier commit) where uninitialized memory was being leaked to disk in the last byte of blocks. Also, strangely these constraints don't apply to the replay code in e2fsprogs, which will accept any tlvs in the blocks (with no bounds checks at all, but that is a separate issue...). Given that this all seems to be a bug, let's fix it by just filling blocks with tlv entries in the natural way. Note that old kernels will be unable to replay fast-commit journals created by kernels that have this commit.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected aa75f4d3daaeb1389b9cce9d6b84401eaf228d4e - < 18f28f13301d1afb8cea9c4ddcecdbff14488ec6affected aa75f4d3daaeb1389b9cce9d6b84401eaf228d4e - < 5ca65dffdead16572ca046c43fb576b227f7f635affected aa75f4d3daaeb1389b9cce9d6b84401eaf228d4e - < 5439ad45c0d0c8db41eb6f4dce6f778f15a5ee16affected aa75f4d3daaeb1389b9cce9d6b84401eaf228d4e - < 48a6a66db82b8043d298a630f22c62d43550cae5 |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.10unaffected 0 - < 5.10unaffected 5.15.87 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.0.18 - <= 6.0.*unaffected 6.1.4 - <= 6.1.*+1 more versions |
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