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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49147"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T01:55:15.373Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:54:02.788Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49147"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49147.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49147"
title: "block: Fix the maximum minor value is blk_alloc_ext_minor()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nblock: Fix the maximum minor value is blk_alloc_ext_minor()\n\nida_alloc_range(..., min, max, ...) returns values from min to max,\ninclusive.\n\nSo, NR_EXT_DEVT is a valid idx returned by blk_alloc_ext_minor().\n\nThis is an issue because in device_add_disk(), this value is used in:\n   ddev-\u003edevt = MKDEV(disk-\u003emajor, disk-\u003efirst_minor);\nand NR_EXT_DEVT is '(1 \u003c\u003c MINORBITS)'.\n\nSo, should 'disk-\u003efirst_minor' be NR_EXT_DEVT, it would overflow."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"22ae8ce8b89241c94ac00c237752c0ffa37ba5ae","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5b9ac3727e4abb11c9cfbe9c0781fc05dfdd7cfb"},{"version":"22ae8ce8b89241c94ac00c237752c0ffa37ba5ae","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0f8cf8f5ccbad25ed6828875b222dbab29d5c272"},{"version":"22ae8ce8b89241c94ac00c237752c0ffa37ba5ae","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fbe2cc4525480ddd20c866bb5c0578071e01451a"},{"version":"22ae8ce8b89241c94ac00c237752c0ffa37ba5ae","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d1868328dec5ae2cf210111025fcbc71f78dd5ca"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"5.15.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.16.*"},{"version":"5.17.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.17.*"},{"version":"5.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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