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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 15, 2025· Updated Dec 23, 2025

ext4: fix potential out of bound read in ext4_fc_replay_scan()

CVE-2022-50306

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: fix potential out of bound read in ext4_fc_replay_scan()

For scan loop must ensure that at least EXT4_FC_TAG_BASE_LEN space. If remain space less than EXT4_FC_TAG_BASE_LEN which will lead to out of bound read when mounting corrupt file system image. ADD_RANGE/HEAD/TAIL is needed to add extra check when do journal scan, as this three tags will read data during scan, tag length couldn't less than data length which will read.

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Patches

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