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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49708" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:24:26.142Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:22:46.811Z" 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-2022-49708" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49708.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49708" title: "ext4: fix bug_on ext4_mb_use_inode_pa" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix bug_on ext4_mb_use_inode_pa\n\nHulk Robot reported a BUG_ON:\n==================================================================\nkernel BUG at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:3211!\n[...]\nRIP: 0010:ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used.cold+0x85/0x136f\n[...]\nCall Trace:\n ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x9df/0x5d30\n ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1803/0x4d80\n ext4_map_blocks+0x3a4/0x1a10\n ext4_writepages+0x126d/0x2c30\n do_writepages+0x7f/0x1b0\n __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x285/0x3b0\n file_write_and_wait_range+0xb1/0x140\n ext4_sync_file+0x1aa/0xca0\n vfs_fsync_range+0xfb/0x260\n do_fsync+0x48/0xa0\n[...]\n==================================================================\n\nAbove issue may happen as follows:\n-------------------------------------\ndo_fsync\n vfs_fsync_range\n ext4_sync_file\n file_write_and_wait_range\n __filemap_fdatawrite_range\n do_writepages\n ext4_writepages\n mpage_map_and_submit_extent\n mpage_map_one_extent\n ext4_map_blocks\n ext4_mb_new_blocks\n ext4_mb_normalize_request\n \u003e\u003e\u003e start + size \u003c= ac-\u003eac_o_ex.fe_logical\n ext4_mb_regular_allocator\n ext4_mb_simple_scan_group\n ext4_mb_use_best_found\n ext4_mb_new_preallocation\n ext4_mb_new_inode_pa\n ext4_mb_use_inode_pa\n \u003e\u003e\u003e set ac-\u003eac_b_ex.fe_len \u003c= 0\n ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used\n \u003e\u003e\u003e BUG_ON(ac-\u003eac_b_ex.fe_len \u003c= 0);\n\nwe can easily reproduce this problem with the following commands:\n\t`fallocate -l100M disk`\n\t`mkfs.ext4 -b 1024 -g 256 disk`\n\t`mount disk /mnt`\n\t`fsstress -d /mnt -l 0 -n 1000 -p 1`\n\nThe size must be smaller than or equal to EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP.\nTherefore, \"start + size \u003c= ac-\u003eac_o_ex.fe_logical\" may occur\nwhen the size is truncated. So start should be the start position of\nthe group where ac_o_ex.fe_logical is located after alignment.\nIn addition, when the value of fe_logical or EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP\nis very large, the value calculated by start_off is more accurate." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fc6c2da174edd7a7b760b12c60d432d300e05cca","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6880fb2e64331b9fdc85d3f32b1d7e81ad8703f1"},{"version":"cd648b8a8fd5071d232242d5ee7ee3c0815776af","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a37c1359714da42517dd19d36fc3c4d17edba832"},{"version":"cd648b8a8fd5071d232242d5ee7ee3c0815776af","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5707d721d1819db57dba57b1d4623034fcb32047"},{"version":"cd648b8a8fd5071d232242d5ee7ee3c0815776af","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a6b31616e5afe1d3972cb0682a373e50597faf5c"},{"version":"cd648b8a8fd5071d232242d5ee7ee3c0815776af","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6fdaf31ad5f3d3afab744dfd9a8b0d9142aa881f"},{"version":"cd648b8a8fd5071d232242d5ee7ee3c0815776af","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"90f0f9d45dff0128c0fca0d2358c4153b024afa6"},{"version":"cd648b8a8fd5071d232242d5ee7ee3c0815776af","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"887a3e9ad4b8309a2266bce7ae749b2bf1f7a687"},{"version":"cd648b8a8fd5071d232242d5ee7ee3c0815776af","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a08f789d2ab5242c07e716baf9a835725046be89"},{"version":"f213db429b883a2d5403de0b1ce92fb7d7ee979e","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"98f58e05231f835dfb09359e3b5e3a886fe8f189","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"c1664e9bcf6291c0ceb8599f57c8cf493526abe6","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"37cf4ab1ba60c30ca9fd0fe3b9993b24cb87886a","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"75f37dab088eb84ff25a49e59371f01ea3f44aa7","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"8774c73cf6963310395823ed7077ea12943ea0f3","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"c4fbdc0124799f1772f4d886b7f2e1a6f881d195","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.9.14","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.9.320"},{"version":"3.2.89","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.3"},{"version":"3.10.107","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.11"},{"version":"3.12.72","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.13"},{"version":"3.16.44","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"},{"version":"4.1.40","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.2"},{"version":"4.4.53","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.5"},{"version":"4.10.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.11"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.11"},{"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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