Linux Kernel up to 5.15.45/5.17.13/5.18.2 null pointer dereference

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 5.15.45/5.17.13/5.18.2. It has been classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code. This manipulation causes null pointer dereference. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-49428. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Linux Kernel up to 5.15.45/5.17.13/5.18.2 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-476. A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to do sanity check on inline_dots inode As Wenqing reported in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215765 It will cause a kernel panic with steps: - mkdir mnt - mount tmp40.img mnt - ls mnt folio_mark_dirty+0x33/0x50 f2fs_add_regular_entry+0x541/0xad0 [f2fs] f2fs_add_dentry+0x6c/0xb0 [f2fs] f2fs_do_add_link+0x182/0x230 [f2fs] __recover_dot_dentries+0x2d6/0x470 [f2fs] f2fs_lookup+0x5af/0x6a0 [f2fs] __lookup_slow+0xac/0x200 lookup_slow+0x45/0x70 walk_component+0x16c/0x250 path_lookupat+0x8b/0x1f0 filename_lookup+0xef/0x250 user_path_at_empty+0x46/0x70 vfs_statx+0x98/0x190 __do_sys_newlstat+0x41/0x90 __x64_sys_newlstat+0x1a/0x30 do_syscall_64+0x37/0xb0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae The root cause is for special file: e.g. character, block, fifo or socket file, f2fs doesn't assign address space operations pointer array for mapping->a_ops field, so, in a fuzzed image, if inline_dots flag was tagged in special file, during lookup(), when f2fs runs into __recover_dot_dentries(), it will cause NULL pointer access once f2fs_add_regular_entry() calls a_ops->set_dirty_page().

It is possible to read the advisory at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2022-49428 since 02/26/2025. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version 5.15.46, 5.17.14 or 5.18.3 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 250e5a6be52a6b9d82fe91976c83cc158868b4e9/34f48ce5d5936eea33e3b6415403e57eb84aff97/2f46160d0a19b13bfe96c0dd50eed5c5d253ab7a/12662d19467b391b5b509ac5e9ab4f583c6dde16 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 5.15.0
• 5.15.1
• 5.15.2
• 5.15.3
• 5.15.4
• 5.15.5
• 5.15.6
• 5.15.7
• 5.15.8
• 5.15.9
• 5.15.10
• 5.15.11
• 5.15.12
• 5.15.13
• 5.15.14
• 5.15.15
• 5.15.16
• 5.15.17
• 5.15.18
• 5.15.19
• 5.15.20
• 5.15.21
• 5.15.22
• 5.15.23
• 5.15.24
• 5.15.25
• 5.15.26
• 5.15.27
• 5.15.28
• 5.15.29
• 5.15.30
• 5.15.31
• 5.15.32
• 5.15.33
• 5.15.34
• 5.15.35
• 5.15.36
• 5.15.37
• 5.15.38
• 5.15.39
• 5.15.40
• 5.15.41
• 5.15.42
• 5.15.43
• 5.15.44
• 5.15.45
• 5.17.0
• 5.17.1
• 5.17.2
• 5.17.3
• 5.17.4
• 5.17.5
• 5.17.6
• 5.17.7
• 5.17.8
• 5.17.9
• 5.17.10
• 5.17.11
• 5.17.12
• 5.17.13
• 5.18.0
• 5.18.1
• 5.18.2

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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