CVE-2022-50306CWE-125

CVE-2022-50306

High · published September 15, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: fix potential out of bound read in ext4_fc_replay_scan()

For scan loop must ensure that at least EXT4_FC_TAG_BASE_LEN space. If remain

space less than EXT4_FC_TAG_BASE_LEN which will lead to out of bound read

when mounting corrupt file system image.

ADD_RANGE/HEAD/TAIL is needed to add extra check when do journal scan, as this

three tags will read data during scan, tag length couldn't less than data length

which will read.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00158 · 4.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read
Published
2025-09-15T19:15Z
Affected products (2)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel< 5.15.875.15.87
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.0.66.0.6
References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 SEP 14:46Z
    ext4: fix potential out of bound read in ext4_fc_replay_scan()
    cvelistv5