CVE-2022-50845
No CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: fix inode leak in ext4_xattr_inode_create() on an error path
There is issue as follows when do setxattr with inject fault:
[localhost]# fsck.ext4 -fn /dev/sda
e2fsck 1.46.6-rc1 (12-Sep-2022)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Unattached zero-length inode 15. Clear? no
Unattached inode 15
Connect to /lost+found? no
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/sda: ********** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors **********
/dev/sda: 15/655360 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 66755/2621440 blocks
This occurs in 'ext4_xattr_inode_create()'. If 'ext4_mark_inode_dirty()'
fails, dropping i_nlink of the inode is needed. Or will lead to inode leak.
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 16% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f709e08caffb41bbc9b38b9a4c1bd0769794007
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/322cf639b0b7f137543072c55545adab782b3a25
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70e5b46beba64706430a87a6d516054225e8ac8a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9882601ee689975c1c0076ee65bf222a2a35e535
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ef603086c5b796fde1c7f22a17d0fc826ba54cb