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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49707" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:24:25.441Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:05:11.366Z" 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-2022-49707" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49707.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49707" title: "ext4: add reserved GDT blocks check" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: add reserved GDT blocks check\n\nWe capture a NULL pointer issue when resizing a corrupt ext4 image which\nis freshly clear resize_inode feature (not run e2fsck). It could be\nsimply reproduced by following steps. The problem is because of the\nresize_inode feature was cleared, and it will convert the filesystem to\nmeta_bg mode in ext4_resize_fs(), but the es-\u003es_reserved_gdt_blocks was\nnot reduced to zero, so could we mistakenly call reserve_backup_gdb()\nand passing an uninitialized resize_inode to it when adding new group\ndescriptors.\n\n mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda 3G\n tune2fs -O ^resize_inode /dev/sda #forget to run requested e2fsck\n mount /dev/sda /mnt\n resize2fs /dev/sda 8G\n\n ========\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028\n CPU: 19 PID: 3243 Comm: resize2fs Not tainted 5.18.0-rc7-00001-gfde086c5ebfd #748\n ...\n RIP: 0010:ext4_flex_group_add+0xe08/0x2570\n ...\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ext4_resize_fs+0xbec/0x1660\n __ext4_ioctl+0x1749/0x24e0\n ext4_ioctl+0x12/0x20\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0xa6/0x110\n do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae\n RIP: 0033:0x7f2dd739617b\n ========\n\nThe fix is simple, add a check in ext4_resize_begin() to make sure that\nthe es-\u003es_reserved_gdt_blocks is zero when the resize_inode feature is\ndisabled." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1c6bd7173d66b3dfdefcedb38cabc1fb03997509","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0dc2fca8e4f9ac4a40e8424a10163369cca0cc06"},{"version":"1c6bd7173d66b3dfdefcedb38cabc1fb03997509","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7c921328ac760bba780bdace41f4cd045f7f1405"},{"version":"1c6bd7173d66b3dfdefcedb38cabc1fb03997509","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b9747263b13e5290ac4d63bec47e38f701303cad"},{"version":"1c6bd7173d66b3dfdefcedb38cabc1fb03997509","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fba54289176702a7caac0b64738406775817f451"},{"version":"1c6bd7173d66b3dfdefcedb38cabc1fb03997509","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bfd004a1d3a062aac300523d406ac1f3e5f1a82c"},{"version":"1c6bd7173d66b3dfdefcedb38cabc1fb03997509","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"33b1bba31f4c784d33d2c2517964bdccdc9204cd"},{"version":"1c6bd7173d66b3dfdefcedb38cabc1fb03997509","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"af75c481a2e45e70f62f5942c93695e95bf7bd21"},{"version":"1c6bd7173d66b3dfdefcedb38cabc1fb03997509","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b55c3cd102a6f48b90e61c44f7f3dda8c290c694"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.7"},{"version":"4.9.320","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.285","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.249","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.200","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.124","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.49","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.18.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.18.*"},{"version":"5.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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