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CVE-2022-48733

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Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2022
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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btrfs: fix use-after-free after failure to create a snapshot

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix use-after-free after failure to create a snapshot At ioctl.c:create_snapshot(), we allocate a pending snapshot structure and then attach it to the transaction's list of pending snapshots. After that we call btrfs_commit_transaction(), and if that returns an error we jump to 'fail' label, where we kfree() the pending snapshot structure. This can result in a later use-after-free of the pending snapshot: 1) We allocated the pending snapshot and added it to the transaction's list of pending snapshots; 2) We call btrfs_commit_transaction(), and it fails either at the first call to btrfs_run_delayed_refs() or btrfs_start_dirty_block_groups(). In both cases, we don't abort the transaction and we release our transaction handle. We jump to the 'fail' label and free the pending snapshot structure. We return with the pending snapshot still in the transaction's list; 3) Another task commits the transaction. This time there's no error at all, and then during the transaction commit it accesses a pointer to the pending snapshot structure that the snapshot creation task has already freed, resulting in a user-after-free. This issue could actually be detected by smatch, which produced the following warning: fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:843 create_snapshot() warn: '&pending_snapshot->list' not removed from list So fix this by not having the snapshot creation ioctl directly add the pending snapshot to the transaction's list. Instead add the pending snapshot to the transaction handle, and then at btrfs_commit_transaction() we add the snapshot to the list only when we can guarantee that any error returned after that point will result in a transaction abort, in which case the ioctl code can safely free the pending snapshot and no one can access it anymore.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
c37b2b6269ee4637fb7cdb5da0d1e47215d57ce2affectedgit7e4c72dbaf62f8978af8321a24dbd35566d3a78aUnavailableNone listed
c37b2b6269ee4637fb7cdb5da0d1e47215d57ce2affectedgita7b717fa15165d3d9245614680bebc48a52ac05dUnavailableNone listed
c37b2b6269ee4637fb7cdb5da0d1e47215d57ce2affectedgit9372fa1d73da5f1673921e365d0cd2c27ec7adc2UnavailableNone listed
c37b2b6269ee4637fb7cdb5da0d1e47215d57ce2affectedgit28b21c558a3753171097193b6f6602a94169093aUnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
3.7affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver3.7UnavailableNone listed
5.10.226unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.10.*None listed
5.15.22unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
5.16.8unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.16.*None listed
5.17unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed