Bug 2395351 (CVE-2022-50306)

Summary: CVE-2022-50306 kernel: ext4: fix potential out of bound read in ext4_fc_replay_scan()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-15 15:09:04 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: fix potential out of bound read in ext4_fc_replay_scan()

For scan loop must ensure that at least EXT4_FC_TAG_BASE_LEN space. If remain
space less than EXT4_FC_TAG_BASE_LEN which will lead to out of bound read
when mounting corrupt file system image.
ADD_RANGE/HEAD/TAIL is needed to add extra check when do journal scan, as this
three tags will read data during scan, tag length couldn't less than data length
which will read.