CVE-2022-49738

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49738
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49738.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49738
Downstream
Published
2025-03-27T16:42:50.951Z
Modified
2026-04-02T08:27:52.426208Z
Severity
  • 7.1 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
f2fs: fix to do sanity check on i_extra_isize in is_alive()
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

f2fs: fix to do sanity check on iextraisize in is_alive()

syzbot found a f2fs bug:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in datablkaddr fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2891 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in isalive fs/f2fs/gc.c:1117 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in gcdatasegment fs/f2fs/gc.c:1520 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in dogarbagecollect+0x386a/0x3df0 fs/f2fs/gc.c:1734 Read of size 4 at addr ffff888076557568 by task kworker/u4:3/52

CPU: 1 PID: 52 Comm: kworker/u4:3 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc4-syzkaller-00362-gfef7fd48922d #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022 Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-7:0) Call Trace: <TASK> __dumpstack lib/dumpstack.c:88 [inline] dumpstacklvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dumpstack.c:106 printaddressdescription mm/kasan/report.c:284 [inline] printreport+0x15e/0x45d mm/kasan/report.c:395 kasanreport+0xbb/0x1f0 mm/kasan/report.c:495 datablkaddr fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2891 [inline] isalive fs/f2fs/gc.c:1117 [inline] gcdatasegment fs/f2fs/gc.c:1520 [inline] dogarbagecollect+0x386a/0x3df0 fs/f2fs/gc.c:1734 f2fsgc+0x88c/0x20a0 fs/f2fs/gc.c:1831 f2fsbalancefs+0x544/0x6b0 fs/f2fs/segment.c:410 f2fswriteinode+0x57e/0xe20 fs/f2fs/inode.c:753 write_inode fs/fs-writeback.c:1440 [inline] __writebacksingleinode+0xcfc/0x1440 fs/fs-writeback.c:1652 writebacksbinodes+0x54d/0xf90 fs/fs-writeback.c:1870 wbwriteback+0x2c5/0xd70 fs/fs-writeback.c:2044 wbdowriteback fs/fs-writeback.c:2187 [inline] wbworkfn+0x2dc/0x12f0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2227 processonework+0x9bf/0x1710 kernel/workqueue.c:2289 workerthread+0x665/0x1080 kernel/workqueue.c:2436 kthread+0x2e4/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376 retfromfork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry64.S:306

The root cause is that we forgot to do sanity check on .iextraisize in below path, result in accessing invalid address later, fix it. - gcdatasegment - isalive - datablkaddr - offsetinaddr

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/49xxx/CVE-2022-49738.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4
Fixed
e5142a4935c1f15841d06047b8130078fc4d7b8f
Fixed
914e38f02a490dafd980ff0f39cccedc074deb29
Fixed
97ccfffcc061e54ce87e4a51a40e2e9cb0b7076a
Fixed
5b25035fb888cb2f78bf0b9c9f95b1dc54480d36
Fixed
d3b7b4afd6b2c344eabf9cc26b8bfa903c164c7c

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49738.json"