CVE-2022-50749

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> acct: fix potential integer overflow in encode_comp_t()<br /> <br /> The integer overflow is descripted with following codes:<br /> &gt; 317 static comp_t encode_comp_t(u64 value)<br /> &gt; 318 {<br /> &gt; 319 int exp, rnd;<br /> ......<br /> &gt; 341 exp 343 return exp;<br /> &gt; 344 }<br /> <br /> Currently comp_t is defined as type of &amp;#39;__u16&amp;#39;, but the variable &amp;#39;exp&amp;#39; is<br /> type of &amp;#39;int&amp;#39;, so overflow would happen when variable &amp;#39;exp&amp;#39; in line 343 is<br /> greater than 65535.