Security Advisory

CVE-2022-49343

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-02-26 02:10:59
Last updated 2026-05-11 18:57:51
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: avoid cycles in directory h-tree A maliciously corrupted filesystem can contain cycles in the h-tree stored inside a directory. That can easily lead to the kernel corrupting tree nodes that were already verified under its hands while doing a node split and consequently accessing unallocated memory. Fix the problem by verifying traversed block numbers are unique.