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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 18, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-45868

CVE-2021-45868

Description

In the Linux kernel before 5.15.3, fs/quota/quota_tree.c does not validate the block number in the quota tree (on disk). This can, for example, lead to a kernel/locking/rwsem.c use-after-free if there is a corrupted quota file.

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