CVE-2022-49166 (GCVE-0-2022-49166)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 01:55 – Updated: 2025-12-23 13:22
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Title
ntfs: add sanity check on allocation size
Summary
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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Linux Linux Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < bd8d7daa0e53b184a2f3c6e0d47330780d0a0650 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 21d490232f323ed4053eb9924615e6fea291f154 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 07793d2e55563124108762f4e5f811db92ffe02f (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < fe41ad8be036a3de3e4bdde709551aeb4de2fe7d (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < b230f2d9441a34c7f483d39ab78519bcf73cc2e0 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 24ab2d4ef52c2dbb62a60844b87fc8872383407a (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 115fae2c1566eacc5ad2055f72521354612e72c3 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < c641087d381a08363e5f14179bc6b0a23eca7c47 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 714fbf2647b1a33d914edd695d4da92029c7e7c0 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.9.311 , ≤ 4.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.276 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.238 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.189 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.110 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.33 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.16.19 , ≤ 5.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.17.2 , ≤ 5.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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