Bug 2426029 (CVE-2022-50815)

Summary: CVE-2022-50815 kernel: ext2: Add sanity checks for group and filesystem size
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext2 filesystem implementation. The filesystem mount code lacks proper validation of filesystem size against the underlying device size and group size against metadata requirements. This allows specially crafted ext2 filesystem images with extremely large group counts to be mounted, potentially causing resource exhaustion or kernel crashes.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-30 13:03:16 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext2: Add sanity checks for group and filesystem size

Add sanity check that filesystem size does not exceed the underlying
device size and that group size is big enough so that metadata can fit
into it. This avoid trying to mount some crafted filesystems with
extremely large group counts.
Comment 1 Alexander B 2025-12-31 14:31:12 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025123014-CVE-2022-50815-6923@gregkh/T