CVE-2022-50485

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

04/10/2025

Last modified:

27/01/2026

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&#39;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)

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.10 (including)	5.4.229 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.163 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.87 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.0.18 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.1 (including)	6.1.4 (excluding)

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CVE-2022-50485

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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