Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 30, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2022-50815

Description

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

ext2: Add sanity checks for group and filesystem size

Add sanity check that filesystem size does not exceed the underlying device size and that group size is big enough so that metadata can fit into it. This avoid trying to mount some crafted filesystems with extremely large group counts.

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Affected products

Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy
osv-coords
pkg:linux/kernel
Range: >= 2.6.12, < 5.19.17

Patches

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References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/321440079763998076b75e0c802524e2218a7d97nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/40ff52527daec00cf1530c17a95636916ddd3b38nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/d766f2d1e3e3bd44024a7f971ffcf8b8fbb7c5d2nvd

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