Security Advisory

CVE-2022-50205

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-06-18 11:03:45
Last updated 2026-05-11 19:14:49
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext2: Add more validity checks for inode counts Add checks verifying number of inodes stored in the superblock matches the number computed from number of inodes per group. Also verify we have at least one block worth of inodes per group. This prevents crashes on corrupted filesystems.