CVE-2022-50673

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50673
Import Source
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JSON Data
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Published
2025-12-09T01:29:25Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:51:14Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
ext4: fix use-after-free in ext4_orphan_cleanup
Details

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

ext4: fix use-after-free in ext4_orphan_cleanup

I caught a issue as follows:

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __list_add_valid+0x28/0x1a0 Read of size 8 at addr ffff88814b13f378 by task mount/710

CPU: 1 PID: 710 Comm: mount Not tainted 6.1.0-rc3-next #370 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x73/0x9f print_report+0x25d/0x759 kasan_report+0xc0/0x120 __asan_load8+0x99/0x140 __list_add_valid+0x28/0x1a0 ext4_orphan_cleanup+0x564/0x9d0 [ext4] __ext4_fill_super+0x48e2/0x5300 [ext4] ext4_fill_super+0x19f/0x3a0 [ext4] get_tree_bdev+0x27b/0x450 ext4_get_tree+0x19/0x30 [ext4] vfs_get_tree+0x49/0x150 path_mount+0xaae/0x1350 do_mount+0xe2/0x110 __x64_sys_mount+0xf0/0x190 do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd [...]

Above issue may happen as follows:

ext4_fill_super ext4_orphan_cleanup --- loop1: assume last_orphan is 12 --- list_add(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_orphan, &EXT4_SB(sb)->s_orphan) ext4_truncate --> return 0 ext4_inode_attach_jinode --> return -ENOMEM iput(inode) --> free inode<12> --- loop2: last_orphan is still 12 --- list_add(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_orphan, &EXT4_SB(sb)->s_orphan); // use inode<12> and trigger UAF

To solve this issue, we need to propagate the return value of ext4_inode_attach_jinode() appropriately.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/50xxx/CVE-2022-50673.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
2c98eb5ea249767bbc11cf4e70e91d5b0458ed13
Fixed
7f801a1593cb957f73659732836b2dafbdfc7709
Fixed
026a4490b5381229a30f23d073b58e8e35ee6858
Fixed
7223d5e75f26352354ea2c0ccf8b579821b52adf
Fixed
cf0e0817b0f925b70d101d7014ea81b7094e1159
Fixed
c2bdbd4c69308835d1b6f6ba74feeccbfe113478
Fixed
7908b8a541b1578cc61b4da7f19b604a931441da
Fixed
a71248b1accb2b42e4980afef4fa4a27fa0e36f5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50673.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.10.0
Fixed
4.19.270
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.20.0
Fixed
5.4.229
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.163
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.87
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.0.18
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.1.0
Fixed
6.1.4

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50673.json"