{"cve":"CVE-2022-49428","nvd":{"published":"2025-02-26T07:01:19.290","modified":"2026-06-17T05:18:01.470","status":"Analyzed","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: fix to do sanity check on inline_dots inode\n\nAs Wenqing reported in bugzilla:\n\nhttps://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215765\n\nIt will cause a kernel panic with steps:\n- mkdir mnt\n- mount tmp40.img mnt\n- ls mnt\n\nfolio_mark_dirty+0x33/0x50\nf2fs_add_regular_entry+0x541/0xad0 [f2fs]\nf2fs_add_dentry+0x6c/0xb0 [f2fs]\nf2fs_do_add_link+0x182/0x230 [f2fs]\n__recover_dot_dentries+0x2d6/0x470 [f2fs]\nf2fs_lookup+0x5af/0x6a0 [f2fs]\n__lookup_slow+0xac/0x200\nlookup_slow+0x45/0x70\nwalk_component+0x16c/0x250\npath_lookupat+0x8b/0x1f0\nfilename_lookup+0xef/0x250\nuser_path_at_empty+0x46/0x70\nvfs_statx+0x98/0x190\n__do_sys_newlstat+0x41/0x90\n__x64_sys_newlstat+0x1a/0x30\ndo_syscall_64+0x37/0xb0\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae\n\nThe root cause is for special file: e.g. character, block, fifo or\nsocket file, f2fs doesn't assign address space operations pointer array\nfor mapping->a_ops field, so, in a fuzzed image, if inline_dots flag was\ntagged in special file, during lookup(), when f2fs runs into\n__recover_dot_dentries(), it will cause NULL pointer access once\nf2fs_add_regular_entry() calls a_ops->set_dirty_page().","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":["CWE-476"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12662d19467b391b5b509ac5e9ab4f583c6dde16","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/250e5a6be52a6b9d82fe91976c83cc158868b4e9","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f46160d0a19b13bfe96c0dd50eed5c5d253ab7a","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34f48ce5d5936eea33e3b6415403e57eb84aff97"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:59:48.811064707+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2022-49428","score":0.00261,"percentile":0.17955,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}