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  "record": {
    "id": "CVE-2022-50021",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50021",
    "idYear": 2022,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2025-06-18T11:01:25.045Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-11T19:11:15.182Z",
    "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: block range must be validated before use in ext4_mb_clear_bb()",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: block range must be validated before use in ext4_mb_clear_bb()\n\nBlock range to free is validated in ext4_free_blocks() using\next4_inode_block_valid() and then it's passed to ext4_mb_clear_bb().\nHowever in some situations on bigalloc file system the range might be\nadjusted after the validation in ext4_free_blocks() which can lead to\ntroubles on corrupted file systems such as one found by syzkaller that\nresulted in the following BUG\n\nkernel BUG at fs/ext4/ext4.h:3319!\nPREEMPT SMP NOPTI\nCPU: 28 PID: 4243 Comm: repro Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.19.0-rc6+ #1\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.15.0-1.fc35 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:ext4_free_blocks+0x95e/0xa90\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n ? lock_timer_base+0x61/0x80\n ? __es_remove_extent+0x5a/0x760\n ? __mod_timer+0x256/0x380\n ? ext4_ind_truncate_ensure_credits+0x90/0x220\n ext4_clear_blocks+0x107/0x1b0\n ext4_free_data+0x15b/0x170\n ext4_ind_truncate+0x214/0x2c0\n ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x15/0x30\n ? ext4_discard_preallocations+0x15a/0x410\n ? ext4_journal_check_start+0xe/0x90\n ? __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x2f/0x110\n ext4_truncate+0x1b5/0x460\n ? __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x2f/0x110\n ext4_evict_inode+0x2b4/0x6f0\n evict+0xd0/0x1d0\n ext4_enable_quotas+0x11f/0x1f0\n ext4_orphan_cleanup+0x3de/0x430\n ? proc_create_seq_private+0x43/0x50\n ext4_fill_super+0x295f/0x3ae0\n ? snprintf+0x39/0x40\n ? sget_fc+0x19c/0x330\n ? ext4_reconfigure+0x850/0x850\n get_tree_bdev+0x16d/0x260\n vfs_get_tree+0x25/0xb0\n path_mount+0x431/0xa70\n __x64_sys_mount+0xe2/0x120\n do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x80\n ? do_user_addr_fault+0x1e2/0x670\n ? exc_page_fault+0x70/0x170\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0\nRIP: 0033:0x7fdf4e512ace\n\nFix it by making sure that the block range is properly validated before\nused every time it changes in ext4_free_blocks() or ext4_mb_clear_bb().",
      "affected": [
        {
          "vendor": "Linux",
          "product": "Linux",
          "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
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            {
              "version": "84130193e0e6568dfdfb823f0e1e19aec80aff6e",
              "status": "affected",
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              "version": "84130193e0e6568dfdfb823f0e1e19aec80aff6e",
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            }
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        {
          "vendor": "Linux",
          "product": "Linux",
          "defaultStatus": "affected",
          "versions": [
            {
              "version": "3.2",
              "status": "affected"
            },
            {
              "version": "0",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "versionType": "semver",
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            {
              "version": "5.10.175",
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              "lessThanOrEqual": "5.10.*"
            },
            {
              "version": "5.15.103",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "versionType": "semver",
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            },
            {
              "version": "5.19.4",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "versionType": "semver",
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              "version": "6.0",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix",
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            }
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