# 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-2022-49879"
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"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49879"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49879.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49879"
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  \u003cTASK\u003e\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."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3d0518f4758eca4339e75e5b9dbb7e06a5ce08b4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2fa24d0274fbf913b56ee31f15bc01168669d909"},{"version":"3d0518f4758eca4339e75e5b9dbb7e06a5ce08b4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"156451a67b93986fb07c274ef6995ff40766c5ad"},{"version":"3d0518f4758eca4339e75e5b9dbb7e06a5ce08b4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"999cff2b6ce3b45c08abf793bf55534777421327"},{"version":"3d0518f4758eca4339e75e5b9dbb7e06a5ce08b4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ce1ee2c8827fb6493e91acbd50f664cf2a972c3d"},{"version":"3d0518f4758eca4339e75e5b9dbb7e06a5ce08b4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"17a0bc9bd697f75cfdf9b378d5eb2d7409c91340"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.30","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.30"},{"version":"5.4.224","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.154","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.78","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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