🛡️ UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49707
⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: add reserved GDT blocks check We capture a NULL pointer issue when resizing a corrupt ext4 image which is freshly clear resize_inode feature (not run e2fsck). It could be simply reproduced by following steps. The problem is because of the resize_inode feature was cleared, and it will convert the filesystem to meta_bg mode in ext4_resize_fs(), but the es->s_reserved_gdt_blocks was not reduced to zero, so could we mistakenly call reserve_backup_gdb() and passing an uninitialized resize_inode to it when adding new group descriptors. mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda 3G tune2fs -O ^resize_inode /dev/sda #forget to run requested e2fsck mount /dev/sda /mnt resize2fs /dev/sda 8G ======== BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028 CPU: 19 PID: 3243 Comm: resize2fs Not tainted 5.18.0-rc7-00001-gfde086c5ebfd #748 ... RIP: 0010:ext4_flex_group_add+0xe08/0x2570 ... Call Trace: ext4_resize_fs+0xbec/0x1660 __ext4_ioctl+0x1749/0x24e0 ext4_ioctl+0x12/0x20 __x64_sys_ioctl+0xa6/0x110 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae RIP: 0033:0x7f2dd739617b ======== The fix is simple, add a check in ext4_resize_begin() to make sure that the es->s_reserved_gdt_blocks is zero when the resize_inode feature is disabled.

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-02-26
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2026-06-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
linux 5.15.0-48.54
linux-allwinner-5.19
linux-aws 5.15.0-1020.24
linux-aws-5.0
linux-aws-5.11
linux-aws-5.13
linux-aws-5.15 5.15.0-1020.24~20.04.1
linux-aws-5.19
linux-aws-5.3
linux-aws-5.4 5.4.0-1085.92~18.04.1
linux-aws-5.8
linux-aws-6.2
linux-aws-6.5
linux-aws-fips
linux-aws-hwe 4.15.0-1142.154~16.04.1
linux-azure 5.15.0-1020.25
linux-azure-4.15 4.15.0-1153.168
linux-azure-5.11
linux-azure-5.13
linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1020.25~20.04.1
linux-azure-5.19
linux-azure-5.3
linux-azure-5.4 5.4.0-1091.96~18.04.1
linux-azure-5.8
linux-azure-6.2
linux-azure-6.5
linux-azure-edge
linux-azure-fde
linux-azure-fde-5.15
linux-azure-fde-5.19
linux-azure-fde-6.2
linux-azure-fips
linux-bluefield
linux-fips
linux-gcp 5.15.0-1018.24
linux-gcp-4.15 4.15.0-1137.153
linux-gcp-5.11
linux-gcp-5.13
linux-gcp-5.15 5.15.0-1018.24~20.04.1
linux-gcp-5.19
linux-gcp-5.3
linux-gcp-5.4 5.4.0-1089.97~18.04.1
linux-gcp-5.8
linux-gcp-6.2
linux-gcp-6.5
linux-gcp-fips
linux-gke 5.15.0-1016.19
linux-gke-4.15
linux-gke-5.15
linux-gke-5.4
linux-gkeop 5.15.0-1003.5
linux-gkeop-5.15
linux-gkeop-5.4
linux-hwe
linux-hwe-5.11
linux-hwe-5.13
linux-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-48.54~20.04.1
linux-hwe-5.19
linux-hwe-5.4 5.4.0-126.142~18.04.1
linux-hwe-5.8
linux-hwe-6.2
linux-hwe-6.5
linux-hwe-edge
linux-ibm 5.15.0-1015.17
linux-ibm-5.4 5.4.0-1033.37~18.04.1
linux-intel-5.13
linux-intel-iot-realtime
linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1016.21
linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1016.21~20.04.1
linux-iot 5.4.0-1004.6
linux-kvm 5.15.0-1018.22
linux-lowlatency 5.15.0-48.54
linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-48.54~20.04.1
linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5
linux-lts-xenial
linux-nvidia 5.15.0-1007.7
linux-nvidia-6.2
linux-nvidia-6.5
linux-oem
linux-oem-5.10
linux-oem-5.13
linux-oem-5.14
linux-oem-5.17
linux-oem-5.6
linux-oem-6.0
linux-oem-6.1
linux-oem-6.5
linux-oracle 5.15.0-1018.23
linux-oracle-5.0
linux-oracle-5.11
linux-oracle-5.13
linux-oracle-5.15 5.15.0-1018.23~20.04.1
linux-oracle-5.3
linux-oracle-5.4 5.4.0-1083.91~18.04.1
linux-oracle-5.8
linux-oracle-6.5
linux-raspi 5.15.0-1015.17
linux-raspi-5.4 5.4.0-1070.80~18.04.1
linux-raspi-realtime
linux-raspi2
linux-realtime 5.15.0-1021.21
linux-riscv
linux-riscv-5.11
linux-riscv-5.15 5.15.0-1019.22~20.04.1
linux-riscv-5.19
linux-riscv-5.8
linux-riscv-6.5
linux-starfive-5.19
linux-starfive-6.2
linux-starfive-6.5

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