CVE-2022-50581

hfs: fix OOB Read in __hfs_brec_find

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: October 22, 2025 at 01:23 PM UTC
Updated: August 5, 2026 at 09:24 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hfs: fix OOB Read in __hfs_brec_find Syzbot reported a OOB read bug: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in hfs_strcmp+0x117/0x190 fs/hfs/string.c:84 Read of size 1 at addr ffff88807eb62c4e by task kworker/u4:1/11 CPU: 1 PID: 11 Comm: kworker/u4:1 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc6-syzkaller-00308-g644e9524388a #0 Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-7:0) Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x1b1/0x28e lib/dump_stack.c:106 print_address_description+0x74/0x340 mm/kasan/report.c:284 print_report+0x107/0x1f0 mm/kasan/report.c:395 kasan_report+0xcd/0x100 mm/kasan/report.c:495 hfs_strcmp+0x117/0x190 fs/hfs/string.c:84 __hfs_brec_find+0x213/0x5c0 fs/hfs/bfind.c:75 hfs_brec_find+0x276/0x520 fs/hfs/bfind.c:138 hfs_write_inode+0x34c/0xb40 fs/hfs/inode.c:462 write_inode fs/fs-writeback.c:1440 [inline] If the input inode of hfs_write_inode() is incorrect: struct inode struct hfs_inode_info struct hfs_cat_key struct hfs_name u8 len # len is greater than HFS_NAMELEN(31) which is the maximum length of an HFS filename OOB read occurred: hfs_write_inode() hfs_brec_find() __hfs_brec_find() hfs_cat_keycmp() hfs_strcmp() # OOB read occurred due to len is too large Fix this by adding a Check on len in hfs_write_inode() before calling hfs_brec_find().

Affected

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

2.6.12 ≤ v < 4.14.3032.6.12 ≤ v < 4.19.2702.6.12 ≤ v < 4.9.3372.6.12 ≤ v < 5.10.1632.6.12 ≤ v < 5.15.862.6.12 ≤ v < 5.4.2292.6.12 ≤ v < 6.0.162.6.12 ≤ v < 6.1.22.6.12 ≤ v < 6.21da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac22.6.12
Vendor states this is fixed in 2344f17c0a89c181ab1a9fef57fd8c3bddfd6e30 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 367296925c7625c3969d2a78d7a3e1dee161beb5 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4fd3a11804c8877ff11fec59c5c53f1635331e3e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 8c40f2dbae603ef0bd21e87c63f54ec59fd88256 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 8d824e69d9f3fa3121b2dda25053bae71e2460d2 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 90103ccb6e60aa4efe48993d23d6a528472f2233 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in bfc9d8f27f89717431a6aecce42ae230b437433f (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c886c10a6eddb99923b315f42bf63f448883ef9a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e9e692917c6e10a7066c7a6d092dcdc3d4e329f3 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2.6.12 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.14.303 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.19.270 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.9.337 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.163 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.86 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.4.229 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.0.16 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.2 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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