CVE-2022-50205

Published: Jun 18, 2025Modified: Jun 17, 2026

5.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

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.

Affected (7)

Products: Linux: Linux Kernel

Linux

1 product

Linux Kernel

Configuration A

7 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Linux Linux Kernel	Before 4.14.291
Linux Linux Kernel	From 4.15 to 4.19.256
Linux Linux Kernel	From 4.20 to 5.4.211
Linux Linux Kernel	From 5.11 to 5.15.61
Linux Linux Kernel	From 5.16 to 5.18.18
Linux Linux Kernel	From 5.19 to 5.19.2
Linux Linux Kernel	From 5.5 to 5.10.137