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    "id": "CVE-2022-49879",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49879",
    "idYear": 2022,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2025-05-01T14:10:27.117Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-11T19:08:30.756Z",
    "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"
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    "facts": {
      "title": "ext4: fix BUG_ON() when directory entry has invalid rec_len",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix BUG_ON() when directory entry has invalid rec_len\n\nThe rec_len field in the directory entry has to be a multiple of 4.  A\ncorrupted filesystem image can be used to hit a BUG() in\next4_rec_len_to_disk(), called from make_indexed_dir().\n\n ------------[ cut here ]------------\n kernel BUG at fs/ext4/ext4.h:2413!\n ...\n RIP: 0010:make_indexed_dir+0x53f/0x5f0\n ...\n Call Trace:\n  <TASK>\n  ? add_dirent_to_buf+0x1b2/0x200\n  ext4_add_entry+0x36e/0x480\n  ext4_add_nondir+0x2b/0xc0\n  ext4_create+0x163/0x200\n  path_openat+0x635/0xe90\n  do_filp_open+0xb4/0x160\n  ? __create_object.isra.0+0x1de/0x3b0\n  ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x12/0x30\n  do_sys_openat2+0x91/0x150\n  __x64_sys_open+0x6c/0xa0\n  do_syscall_64+0x3c/0x80\n  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0\n\nThe fix simply adds a call to ext4_check_dir_entry() to validate the\ndirectory entry, returning -EFSCORRUPTED if the entry is invalid.",
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