CVE-2022-50673

ext4: fix use-after-free in ext4_orphan_cleanup

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: December 9, 2025 at 01:29 AM 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%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

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: <TASK> 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 </TASK> [...] ================================================================== 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.

Affected

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

4.10 ≤ v < 4.19.2704.10 ≤ v < 5.10.1634.10 ≤ v < 5.15.874.10 ≤ v < 5.4.2294.10 ≤ v < 6.0.184.10 ≤ v < 6.1.44.10 ≤ v < 6.22c98eb5ea249767bbc11cf4e70e91d5b0458ed134.10
Vendor states this is fixed in 026a4490b5381229a30f23d073b58e8e35ee6858 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7223d5e75f26352354ea2c0ccf8b579821b52adf (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7908b8a541b1578cc61b4da7f19b604a931441da (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7f801a1593cb957f73659732836b2dafbdfc7709 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in a71248b1accb2b42e4980afef4fa4a27fa0e36f5 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c2bdbd4c69308835d1b6f6ba74feeccbfe113478 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in cf0e0817b0f925b70d101d7014ea81b7094e1159 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.10 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.19.270 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.163 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.87 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.4.229 (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)

Remediation

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
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