Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Feb 26, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2022-49166
CVE-2022-49166
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ntfs: add sanity check on allocation size
ntfs_read_inode_mount invokes ntfs_malloc_nofs with zero allocation size. It triggers one BUG in the __ntfs_malloc function.
Fix this by adding sanity check on ni->attr_list_size.
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References
9- git.kernel.org/stable/c/07793d2e55563124108762f4e5f811db92ffe02fnvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/115fae2c1566eacc5ad2055f72521354612e72c3nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/21d490232f323ed4053eb9924615e6fea291f154nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/24ab2d4ef52c2dbb62a60844b87fc8872383407anvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/714fbf2647b1a33d914edd695d4da92029c7e7c0nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b230f2d9441a34c7f483d39ab78519bcf73cc2e0nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd8d7daa0e53b184a2f3c6e0d47330780d0a0650nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c641087d381a08363e5f14179bc6b0a23eca7c47nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe41ad8be036a3de3e4bdde709551aeb4de2fe7dnvdPatch
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