# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49688"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:24:13.686Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:22:44.050Z"
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-2022-49688"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49688.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49688"
title: "afs: Fix dynamic root getattr"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nafs: Fix dynamic root getattr\n\nThe recent patch to make afs_getattr consult the server didn't account\nfor the pseudo-inodes employed by the dynamic root-type afs superblock\nnot having a volume or a server to access, and thus an oops occurs if\nsuch a directory is stat'd.\n\nFix this by checking to see if the vnode-\u003evolume pointer actually points\nanywhere before following it in afs_getattr().\n\nThis can be tested by stat'ing a directory in /afs.  It may be\nsufficient just to do \"ls /afs\" and the oops looks something like:\n\n        BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020\n        ...\n        RIP: 0010:afs_getattr+0x8b/0x14b\n        ...\n        Call Trace:\n         \u003cTASK\u003e\n         vfs_statx+0x79/0xf5\n         vfs_fstatat+0x49/0x62"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b76ea7c06b24dcf97ea3379b6957d5b99c346ea0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"65c24caf1b9f5b08397c6e805ec24ebc390c6e4d"},{"version":"dba1941f5bc3de6b460685155b89ae1182824fc8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e3a232e5767051483ffad4cef7d0a89d292a192b"},{"version":"61a4cc41e5c1b77d05a12798f8032050aa75f3c8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7b564e3254b7db5fbfbf11a824627a6c31b932b4"},{"version":"94bf8bfb009fad247d02f12e4c443411c8445412","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2b2bba96526f25f2eba74ecadb031de2e05a83ce"},{"version":"2aeb8c86d49967552394d5e723f87454cb53f501","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7844ceada44eca740d31beb3d97b8511b1ca0a9b"},{"version":"2aeb8c86d49967552394d5e723f87454cb53f501","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cb78d1b5efffe4cf97e16766329dd7358aed3deb"},{"version":"9e655a8b874d7c56e02938ddb221b16e293793df","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.19.245","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.19.250"},{"version":"5.4.196","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4.202"},{"version":"5.10.118","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.127"},{"version":"5.15.42","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.51"},{"version":"5.17.10","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"version":"4.19.250","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.202","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.127","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.51","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.18.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.18.*"},{"version":"5.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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