CVE-2022-50428

ext4: fix off-by-one errors in fast-commit block filling

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: October 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 05:23 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix off-by-one errors in fast-commit block filling Due to several different off-by-one errors, or perhaps due to a late change in design that wasn't fully reflected in the code that was actually merged, there are several very strange constraints on how fast-commit blocks are filled with tlv entries: - tlvs must start at least 10 bytes before the end of the block, even though the minimum tlv length is 8. Otherwise, the replay code will ignore them. (BUG: ext4_fc_reserve_space() could violate this requirement if called with a len of blocksize - 9 or blocksize - 8. Fortunately, this doesn't seem to happen currently.) - tlvs must end at least 1 byte before the end of the block. Otherwise the replay code will consider them to be invalid. This quirk contributed to a bug (fixed by an earlier commit) where uninitialized memory was being leaked to disk in the last byte of blocks. Also, strangely these constraints don't apply to the replay code in e2fsprogs, which will accept any tlvs in the blocks (with no bounds checks at all, but that is a separate issue...). Given that this all seems to be a bug, let's fix it by just filling blocks with tlv entries in the natural way. Note that old kernels will be unable to replay fast-commit journals created by kernels that have this commit.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.10 ≤ v < 5.15.875.10 ≤ v < 6.0.185.10 ≤ v < 6.1.45.10 ≤ v < 6.25.16 ≤ v < 6.0.186.1 ≤ v < 6.1.45.10aa75f4d3daaeb1389b9cce9d6b84401eaf228d4e
Vendor states this is fixed in 18f28f13301d1afb8cea9c4ddcecdbff14488ec6 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 48a6a66db82b8043d298a630f22c62d43550cae5 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5439ad45c0d0c8db41eb6f4dce6f778f15a5ee16 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5ca65dffdead16572ca046c43fb576b227f7f635 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.87 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.0.18 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.2 (unaffected)

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-193

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