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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49834" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:09:52.076Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:56:25.358Z" 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-2022-49834" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49834.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49834" title: "nilfs2: fix use-after-free bug of ns_writer on remount" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnilfs2: fix use-after-free bug of ns_writer on remount\n\nIf a nilfs2 filesystem is downgraded to read-only due to metadata\ncorruption on disk and is remounted read/write, or if emergency read-only\nremount is performed, detaching a log writer and synchronizing the\nfilesystem can be done at the same time.\n\nIn these cases, use-after-free of the log writer (hereinafter\nnilfs-\u003ens_writer) can happen as shown in the scenario below:\n\n Task1 Task2\n -------------------------------- ------------------------------\n nilfs_construct_segment\n nilfs_segctor_sync\n init_wait\n init_waitqueue_entry\n add_wait_queue\n schedule\n nilfs_remount (R/W remount case)\n\t\t\t\t nilfs_attach_log_writer\n nilfs_detach_log_writer\n nilfs_segctor_destroy\n kfree\n finish_wait\n _raw_spin_lock_irqsave\n __raw_spin_lock_irqsave\n do_raw_spin_lock\n debug_spin_lock_before \u003c-- use-after-free\n\nWhile Task1 is sleeping, nilfs-\u003ens_writer is freed by Task2. After Task1\nwaked up, Task1 accesses nilfs-\u003ens_writer which is already freed. This\nscenario diagram is based on the Shigeru Yoshida's post [1].\n\nThis patch fixes the issue by not detaching nilfs-\u003ens_writer on remount so\nthat this UAF race doesn't happen. Along with this change, this patch\nalso inserts a few necessary read-only checks with superblock instance\nwhere only the ns_writer pointer was used to check if the filesystem is\nread-only." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fe5f171bb272946ce5fbf843ce2f8467d0d41b9a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b2fbf10040216ef5ee270773755fc2f5da65b749"},{"version":"fe5f171bb272946ce5fbf843ce2f8467d0d41b9a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"39a3ed68270b079c6b874d4e4727a512b9b4882c"},{"version":"fe5f171bb272946ce5fbf843ce2f8467d0d41b9a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b4736ab5542112fe0a40f140a0a0b072954f34da"},{"version":"fe5f171bb272946ce5fbf843ce2f8467d0d41b9a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9b162e81045266a2d5b44df9dffdf05c54de9cca"},{"version":"fe5f171bb272946ce5fbf843ce2f8467d0d41b9a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4feedde5486c07ea79787839153a71ca71329c7d"},{"version":"fe5f171bb272946ce5fbf843ce2f8467d0d41b9a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"afbd1188382a75f6cfe22c0b68533f7f9664f182"},{"version":"fe5f171bb272946ce5fbf843ce2f8467d0d41b9a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b152300d5a1ba4258dacf9916bff20e6a8c7603b"},{"version":"fe5f171bb272946ce5fbf843ce2f8467d0d41b9a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8cccf05fe857a18ee26e20d11a8455a73ffd4efd"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.34","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.34"},{"version":"4.9.334","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.300","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.267","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.225","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.155","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.79","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","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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