# 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-2022-49993"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T11:00:53.487Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:10:39.147Z"
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-2022-49993"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49993.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49993"
title: "loop: Check for overflow while configuring loop"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nloop: Check for overflow while configuring loop\n\nThe userspace can configure a loop using an ioctl call, wherein\na configuration of type loop_config is passed (see lo_ioctl()'s\ncase on line 1550 of drivers/block/loop.c). This proceeds to call\nloop_configure() which in turn calls loop_set_status_from_info()\n(see line 1050 of loop.c), passing &config-\u003einfo which is of type\nloop_info64*. This function then sets the appropriate values, like\nthe offset.\n\nloop_device has lo_offset of type loff_t (see line 52 of loop.c),\nwhich is typdef-chained to long long, whereas loop_info64 has\nlo_offset of type __u64 (see line 56 of include/uapi/linux/loop.h).\n\nThe function directly copies offset from info to the device as\nfollows (See line 980 of loop.c):\n\tlo-\u003elo_offset = info-\u003elo_offset;\n\nThis results in an overflow, which triggers a warning in iomap_iter()\ndue to a call to iomap_iter_done() which has:\n\tWARN_ON_ONCE(iter-\u003eiomap.offset \u003e iter-\u003epos);\n\nThus, check for negative value during loop_set_status_from_info().\n\nBug report: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=c620fe14aac810396d3c3edc9ad73848bf69a29e"
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