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CVE-2022-49343

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2025-02-26 Modified: 2026-08-04

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: avoid cycles in directory h-tree A maliciously corrupted filesystem can contain cycles in the h-tree stored inside a directory. That can easily lead to the kernel corrupting tree nodes that were already verified under its hands while doing a node split and consequently accessing unallocated memory. Fix the problem by verifying traversed block numbers are unique.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-noinfo

References