FKIE_CVE-2022-50673
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-09 16:17 - Updated: 2026-08-04 10:18
Severity
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|
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{
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"product": "Linux",
"programFiles": [
"fs/ext4/inode.c"
],
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"vendor": "Linux",
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},
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},
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"version": "4.19.270",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"lessThanOrEqual": "5.4.*",
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "5.4.229",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"lessThanOrEqual": "5.10.*",
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "5.10.163",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"lessThanOrEqual": "5.15.*",
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "5.15.87",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"lessThanOrEqual": "6.0.*",
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "6.0.18",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"lessThanOrEqual": "6.1.*",
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "6.1.4",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"lessThanOrEqual": "*",
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "6.2",
"versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
}
]
}
],
"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"
}
],
"cveTags": [],
"descriptions": [
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix use-after-free in ext4_orphan_cleanup\n\nI caught a issue as follows:\n==================================================================\n BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __list_add_valid+0x28/0x1a0\n Read of size 8 at addr ffff88814b13f378 by task mount/710\n\n CPU: 1 PID: 710 Comm: mount Not tainted 6.1.0-rc3-next #370\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x73/0x9f\n print_report+0x25d/0x759\n kasan_report+0xc0/0x120\n __asan_load8+0x99/0x140\n __list_add_valid+0x28/0x1a0\n ext4_orphan_cleanup+0x564/0x9d0 [ext4]\n __ext4_fill_super+0x48e2/0x5300 [ext4]\n ext4_fill_super+0x19f/0x3a0 [ext4]\n get_tree_bdev+0x27b/0x450\n ext4_get_tree+0x19/0x30 [ext4]\n vfs_get_tree+0x49/0x150\n path_mount+0xaae/0x1350\n do_mount+0xe2/0x110\n __x64_sys_mount+0xf0/0x190\n do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n [...]\n==================================================================\n\nAbove issue may happen as follows:\n-------------------------------------\next4_fill_super\n ext4_orphan_cleanup\n --- loop1: assume last_orphan is 12 ---\n list_add(\u0026EXT4_I(inode)-\u003ei_orphan, \u0026EXT4_SB(sb)-\u003es_orphan)\n ext4_truncate --\u003e return 0\n ext4_inode_attach_jinode --\u003e return -ENOMEM\n iput(inode) --\u003e free inode\u003c12\u003e\n --- loop2: last_orphan is still 12 ---\n list_add(\u0026EXT4_I(inode)-\u003ei_orphan, \u0026EXT4_SB(sb)-\u003es_orphan);\n // use inode\u003c12\u003e and trigger UAF\n\nTo solve this issue, we need to propagate the return value of\next4_inode_attach_jinode() appropriately."
}
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"id": "CVE-2022-50673",
"lastModified": "2026-08-04T10:18:21.107",
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"timestamp": "2026-06-16T15:48:47.172262Z",
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