Bug 2395240 (CVE-2022-50299) - CVE-2022-50299 kernel: md: Replace snprintf with scnprintf
Summary: CVE-2022-50299 kernel: md: Replace snprintf with scnprintf
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50299
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-09-15 15:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-10-06 10:06 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-15 15:02:31 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

md: Replace snprintf with scnprintf

Current code produces a warning as shown below when total characters
in the constituent block device names plus the slashes exceeds 200.
snprintf() returns the number of characters generated from the given
input, which could cause the expression “200 – len” to wrap around
to a large positive number. Fix this by using scnprintf() instead,
which returns the actual number of characters written into the buffer.

[ 1513.267938] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 1513.267943] WARNING: CPU: 15 PID: 37247 at <snip>/lib/vsprintf.c:2509 vsnprintf+0x2c8/0x510
[ 1513.267944] Modules linked in:  <snip>
[ 1513.267969] CPU: 15 PID: 37247 Comm: mdadm Not tainted 5.4.0-1085-azure #90~18.04.1-Ubuntu
[ 1513.267969] Hardware name: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine/Virtual Machine, BIOS Hyper-V UEFI Release v4.1 05/09/2022
[ 1513.267971] RIP: 0010:vsnprintf+0x2c8/0x510
<-snip->
[ 1513.267982] Call Trace:
[ 1513.267986]  snprintf+0x45/0x70
[ 1513.267990]  ? disk_name+0x71/0xa0
[ 1513.267993]  dump_zones+0x114/0x240 [raid0]
[ 1513.267996]  ? _cond_resched+0x19/0x40
[ 1513.267998]  raid0_run+0x19e/0x270 [raid0]
[ 1513.268000]  md_run+0x5e0/0xc50
[ 1513.268003]  ? security_capable+0x3f/0x60
[ 1513.268005]  do_md_run+0x19/0x110
[ 1513.268006]  md_ioctl+0x195e/0x1f90
[ 1513.268007]  blkdev_ioctl+0x91f/0x9f0
[ 1513.268010]  block_ioctl+0x3d/0x50
[ 1513.268012]  do_vfs_ioctl+0xa9/0x640
[ 1513.268014]  ? __fput+0x162/0x260
[ 1513.268016]  ksys_ioctl+0x75/0x80
[ 1513.268017]  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x1a/0x20
[ 1513.268019]  do_syscall_64+0x5e/0x200
[ 1513.268021]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9


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