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Tracker / CVE-2022-50300

CVE-2022-50300

High 7.8

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix extent map use-after-free when handling missing device in read_one_chunk Store the error code before freeing the extent_map. Though it's reference counted structure, in that function it's the first and last allocation so this would lead to a potential use-after-free. The error can happen eg. when chunk is stored on a missing device and the degraded mount option is missing. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216721

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 5.15.87
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.0.18
linux linux_kernel · 6.1 → 6.1.4

Analysis

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