CVE-2022-50815

medium

Description

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d766f2d1e3e3bd44024a7f971ffcf8b8fbb7c5d2

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40ff52527daec00cf1530c17a95636916ddd3b38

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/321440079763998076b75e0c802524e2218a7d97

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-12-30

Updated: 2025-12-31

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00017