Linux Kernel up to 6.0.8 udf udf_find_entry out-of-bounds write

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.0.8 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function udf_find_entry of the component udf. The manipulation results in out-of-bounds write. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2022-49846. An attack on the physical device is feasible. No exploit is available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.0.8. Affected is the function udf_find_entry of the component udf. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds write vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-787. The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: udf: Fix a slab-out-of-bounds write bug in udf_find_entry() Syzbot reported a slab-out-of-bounds Write bug: loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 2048 ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in udf_find_entry+0x8a5/0x14f0 fs/udf/namei.c:253 Write of size 105 at addr ffff8880123ff896 by task syz-executor323/3610 CPU: 0 PID: 3610 Comm: syz-executor323 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc2-syzkaller-00105-gb229b6ca5abb #0 Hardware name: Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/11/2022 Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x1b1/0x28e lib/dump_stack.c:106 print_address_description+0x74/0x340 mm/kasan/report.c:284 print_report+0x107/0x1f0 mm/kasan/report.c:395 kasan_report+0xcd/0x100 mm/kasan/report.c:495 kasan_check_range+0x2a7/0x2e0 mm/kasan/generic.c:189 memcpy+0x3c/0x60 mm/kasan/shadow.c:66 udf_find_entry+0x8a5/0x14f0 fs/udf/namei.c:253 udf_lookup+0xef/0x340 fs/udf/namei.c:309 lookup_open fs/namei.c:3391 [inline] open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3481 [inline] path_openat+0x10e6/0x2df0 fs/namei.c:3710 do_filp_open+0x264/0x4f0 fs/namei.c:3740 do_sys_openat2+0x124/0x4e0 fs/open.c:1310 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1326 [inline] __do_sys_creat fs/open.c:1402 [inline] __se_sys_creat fs/open.c:1396 [inline] __x64_sys_creat+0x11f/0x160 fs/open.c:1396 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd RIP: 0033:0x7ffab0d164d9 Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 c0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007ffe1a7e6bb8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000055 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007ffab0d164d9 RDX: 00007ffab0d164d9 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000020000180 RBP: 00007ffab0cd5a10 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 00005555573552c0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffab0cd5aa0 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 Allocated by task 3610: kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline] kasan_set_track+0x3d/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:52 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:371 [inline] __kasan_kmalloc+0x97/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:380 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:576 [inline] udf_find_entry+0x7b6/0x14f0 fs/udf/namei.c:243 udf_lookup+0xef/0x340 fs/udf/namei.c:309 lookup_open fs/namei.c:3391 [inline] open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3481 [inline] path_openat+0x10e6/0x2df0 fs/namei.c:3710 do_filp_open+0x264/0x4f0 fs/namei.c:3740 do_sys_openat2+0x124/0x4e0 fs/open.c:1310 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1326 [inline] __do_sys_creat fs/open.c:1402 [inline] __se_sys_creat fs/open.c:1396 [inline] __x64_sys_creat+0x11f/0x160 fs/open.c:1396 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880123ff800 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-256 of size 256 The buggy address is located 150 bytes inside of 256-byte region [ffff8880123ff800, ffff8880123ff900) The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page:ffffea000048ff80 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x123fe head:ffffea000048ff80 order:1 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0 flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff) raw: 00fff00000010200 ffffea00004b8500 dead000000000003 ffff888012041b40 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected page_owner tracks the page as allocated page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x0(), pid 1, tgid 1 (swapper/0), ts 1841222404, free_ts 0 create_dummy_stack mm/page_owner.c: ---truncated---

The advisory is shared for download at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2022-49846 since 05/01/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 241445 (RHEL 9 : kernel (RHSA-2025:10379)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 4.9.334, 4.14.300, 4.19.267, 5.4.225, 5.10.155, 5.15.79 or 6.0.9 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 583fdd98d94acba1e7225e5cc29063aef0741030/f1517721c408631f09d54c743aa70cb07fd3eebd/7a6051d734f1ed0031e2216f9a538621235c11a4/d8971f410739a864c537e0ac29344a7b6c450232/03f9582a6a2ebd25a440896475c968428c4b63e7/c736ed8541605e3a25075bb1cbf8f38cb3083238/ac79001b8e603226fab17240a79cb9ef679d3cd9/c8af247de385ce49afabc3bf1cf4fd455c94bfe8 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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (241445) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-1549). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Open Source Linux Kernel

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• Linux

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• Kernel

Version

• 4.9.333
• 4.14.299
• 4.19.266
• 5.4.224
• 5.10.154
• 5.15.0
• 5.15.1
• 5.15.2
• 5.15.3
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• 5.15.72
• 5.15.73
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• 5.15.75
• 5.15.76
• 5.15.77
• 5.15.78
• 6.0.0
• 6.0.1
• 6.0.2
• 6.0.3
• 6.0.4
• 6.0.5
• 6.0.6
• 6.0.7
• 6.0.8

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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