SUSE CVE-2022-50485

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: add EXT4IGETBAD flag to prevent unexpected bad inode There are many places that will get unhappy and crash when ext4iget returns a bad inode. However, if iget the boot loader inode, allows a bad inode to be returned, becaus...

CVE-2022-50485

The CVE-2022-50485 entry concerns the Linux kernel ext4 subsystem. A new EXT4_IGET_BAD flag is added to ext4_iget() to prevent returning a bad inode; previously, boot loader inodes could be returned as bad inodes, bypassing some checks and potentially causing a kernel panic. The mitigation is a p...

CVE-2022-50485 ext4: add EXT4_IGET_BAD flag to prevent unexpected bad inode

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: add EXT4IGETBAD flag to prevent unexpected bad inode There are many places that will get unhappy and crash when ext4iget returns a bad inode. However, if iget the boot loader inode, allows a bad inode to be returned, becaus...