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CVE-2022-50485

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CVE-2022-50485

Published: Oct 4, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: add EXT4_IGET_BAD flag to prevent unexpected bad inode There are many places that will get unhappy (and crash) when ext4_iget() returns a bad inode. However, if iget the boot loader inode, allows a bad inode to be returned, because the inode may not be initialized. This mechanism can be used to bypass some checks and cause panic. To solve this problem, we add a special iget flag EXT4_IGET_BAD. Only with this flag we'd be returning bad inode from ext4_iget(), otherwise we always return the error code if the inode is bad inode.(suggested by Jan Kara)

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
393d1d1d76933886d5e1ce603214c9987589c6d5 - < 2142dfa1de61e25b83198af0308ec7689cca25d3
affected
393d1d1d76933886d5e1ce603214c9987589c6d5 - < c0a738875c2e9c8c3366d792f8bf7fe508d5e5a5
affected
393d1d1d76933886d5e1ce603214c9987589c6d5 - < f7e6b5548f915d7aa435d0764d41eacfb49c6e09
affected
393d1d1d76933886d5e1ce603214c9987589c6d5 - < f725b290ed79ad61e4f721fee95a287892d8b1ad
affected
393d1d1d76933886d5e1ce603214c9987589c6d5 - < 488a5c2bf7543c3cd3f07a025f2e62be91599430

+1 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
3.10
unaffected
0 - < 3.10
unaffected
5.4.229 - <= 5.4.*
unaffected
5.10.163 - <= 5.10.*
unaffected
5.15.87 - <= 5.15.*

+3 more versions

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