> CVE-2022-49880 [MEDIUM]

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PUBLISHED
2025-05-01 15:16
MODIFIED
2025-10-01 17:15
CVSS_SCORE V3
5.5
EPSS (Prob. Exploit)
0.22%
Top 88.4%
DATA SOURCES:
NVD 🔗 2025-10-18 RED HAT 🔗 2025-10-18 CVE PROJECT 🔗 2026-01-19 FIRST EPSS 🔗 2026-10-25

> DESCRIPTION

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix warning in 'ext4_da_release_space' Syzkaller report issue as follows: EXT4-fs (loop0): Free/Dirty block details EXT4-fs (loop0): free_blocks=0 EXT4-fs (loop0): dirty_blocks=0 EXT4-fs (loop0): Block reservation details EXT4-fs (loop0): i_reserved_data_blocks=0 EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_da_release_space:1527: ext4_da_release_space: ino 18, to_free 1 with only 0 reserved data blocks ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 92 at fs/ext4/inode.c:1528 ext4_da_release_space+0x25e/0x370 fs/ext4/inode.c:1524 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 92 Comm: kworker/u4:4 Not tainted 6.0.0-syzkaller-09423-g493ffd6605b2 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/22/2022 Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-7:0) RIP: 0010:ext4_da_release_space+0x25e/0x370 fs/ext4/inode.c:1528 RSP: 0018:ffffc900015f6c90 EFLAGS: 00010296 RAX: 42215896cd52ea00 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 42215896cd52ea00 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000080000001 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: 1ffff1100e907d96 R08: ffffffff816aa79d R09: fffff520002bece5 R10: fffff520002bece5 R11: 1ffff920002bece4 R12: ffff888021fd2000 R13: ffff88807483ecb0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff88807483e740 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00005555569ba628 CR3: 000000000c88e000 CR4: 00000000003506f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> ext4_es_remove_extent+0x1ab/0x260 fs/ext4/extents_status.c:1461 mpage_release_unused_pages+0x24d/0xef0 fs/ext4/inode.c:1589 ext4_writepages+0x12eb/0x3be0 fs/ext4/inode.c:2852 do_writepages+0x3c3/0x680 mm/page-writeback.c:2469 __writeback_single_inode+0xd1/0x670 fs/fs-writeback.c:1587 writeback_sb_inodes+0xb3b/0x18f0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1870 wb_writeback+0x41f/0x7b0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2044 wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2187 [inline] wb_workfn+0x3cb/0xef0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2227 process_one_work+0x877/0xdb0 kernel/workqueue.c:2289 worker_thread+0xb14/0x1330 kernel/workqueue.c:2436 kthread+0x266/0x300 kernel/kthread.c:376 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:306 </TASK> Above issue may happens as follows: ext4_da_write_begin ext4_create_inline_data ext4_clear_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS); ext4_set_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_INLINE_DATA); __ext4_ioctl ext4_ext_migrate -> will lead to eh->eh_entries not zero, and set extent flag ext4_da_write_begin ext4_da_convert_inline_data_to_extent ext4_da_write_inline_data_begin ext4_da_map_blocks ext4_insert_delayed_block if (!ext4_es_scan_clu(inode, &ext4_es_is_delonly, lblk)) if (!ext4_es_scan_clu(inode, &ext4_es_is_mapped, lblk)) ext4_clu_mapped(inode, EXT4_B2C(sbi, lblk)); -> will return 1 allocated = true; ext4_es_insert_delayed_block(inode, lblk, allocated); ext4_writepages mpage_map_and_submit_extent(handle, &mpd, &give_up_on_write); -> return -ENOSPC mpage_release_unused_pages(&mpd, give_up_on_write); -> give_up_on_write == 1 ext4_es_remove_extent ext4_da_release_space(inode, reserved); if (unlikely(to_free > ei->i_reserved_data_blocks)) -> to_free == 1 but ei->i_reserved_data_blocks == 0 -> then trigger warning as above To solve above issue, forbid inode do migrate which has inline data.

> AFFECTED_PRODUCTS

Linux - Linux Kernel
< 4.9.333
Linux - Linux Kernel
>= 4.10 < 4.14.299
Linux - Linux Kernel
>= 4.15 < 4.19.265
Linux - Linux Kernel
>= 4.20 < 5.4.224
Linux - Linux Kernel
>= 5.5 < 5.10.154
Linux - Linux Kernel
>= 5.11 < 5.15.78
Linux - Linux Kernel
>= 5.16 < 6.0.8
Linux - Linux Kernel
Version: 6.1

> CVSS V3 METRICS

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

> MÉTRIQUES CVSS DÉTAILLÉES

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Métrique Valeur Interprétation
AV (Vecteur d'Attaque)
Attack Vector
Local (L)
Exploit nécessite un accès local au système
AC (Complexité d'Attaque)
Attack Complexity
Low (L)
Peu de conditions requises pour exploiter
PR (Privilèges Requis)
Privileges Required
Low (L)
Authentifié avec compte utilisateur basique
UI (Interaction Utilisateur)
User Interaction
None (N)
Aucune interaction utilisateur nécessaire
S (Périmètre)
Scope
Unchanged (U)
Impact reste dans le périmètre du composant compromis
C (Impact Confidentialité)
Confidentiality Impact
None (N)
Aucune divulgation d'informations
I (Impact Intégrité)
Integrity Impact
None (N)
Aucune modification de données possible
A (Impact Disponibilité)
Availability Impact
High (H)
Interruption totale du service possible

> RÉSUMÉ DES IMPACTS

Confidentialité
None
Aucune divulgation d'informations
Intégrité
None
Aucune modification de données possible
Disponibilité
High
Interruption totale du service possible

> RED HAT SEVERITY ASSESSMENT

THREAT SEVERITY
Moderate

> HISTORIQUE DES MODIFICATIONS

Première apparition
01/05/2025 15:16
Source: NVD
📊 ENRICHISSEMENT 18/10/2025 14:38
CVEPROJECT
Champ modifié: CVE Project
Ancienne valeur:
Non
Nouvelle valeur:
Oui
📊 ENRICHISSEMENT 18/10/2025 12:16
REDHAT
Champ modifié: Sévérité Red Hat
Ancienne valeur:
N/A
Nouvelle valeur:
{ "threat_severity": "Moderate", "severity_scale": null }
📊 ENRICHISSEMENT 18/10/2025 12:16
REDHAT
Champ modifié: Red Hat
Ancienne valeur:
Non
Nouvelle valeur:
Oui
Total des modifications: 3 Dernière mise à jour: 1 year ago
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