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CVE-2022-50020

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2025-06-18 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: avoid resizing to a partial cluster size This patch avoids an attempt to resize the filesystem to an unaligned cluster boundary. An online resize to a size that is not integral to cluster size results in the last iteration attempting to grow the fs by a negative amount, which trips a BUG_ON and leaves the fs with a corrupted in-memory superblock.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-1284

References