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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-50336" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:49:51.195Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-15T12:23:19.941Z" 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-2022-50336" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50336.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50336" title: "fs/ntfs3: Add null pointer check to attr_load_runs_vcn" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/ntfs3: Add null pointer check to attr_load_runs_vcn\n\nSome metadata files are handled before MFT. This adds a null pointer\ncheck for some corner cases that could lead to NPD while reading these\nmetadata files for a malformed NTFS image.\n\n[ 240.190827] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000158\n[ 240.191583] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n[ 240.191956] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n[ 240.192391] PGD 0 P4D 0\n[ 240.192897] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI\n[ 240.193805] CPU: 0 PID: 242 Comm: mount Tainted: G B 5.19.0+ #17\n[ 240.194477] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\n[ 240.195152] RIP: 0010:ni_find_attr+0xae/0x300\n[ 240.195679] Code: c8 48 c7 45 88 c0 4e 5e 86 c7 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 c7 40 04 00 f3 f3 f3 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 45 d0 31 c0 e8 e2 d9f\n[ 240.196642] RSP: 0018:ffff88800812f690 EFLAGS: 00000286\n[ 240.197019] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff85ef037a\n[ 240.197523] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffff88e95f60\n[ 240.197877] RBP: ffff88800812f738 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: fffffbfff11d2bed\n[ 240.198292] R10: ffffffff88e95f67 R11: fffffbfff11d2bec R12: 0000000000000000\n[ 240.198647] R13: 0000000000000080 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000\n[ 240.199410] FS: 00007f233c33be40(0000) GS:ffff888058200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[ 240.199895] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[ 240.200314] CR2: 0000000000000158 CR3: 0000000004d32000 CR4: 00000000000006f0\n[ 240.200839] Call Trace:\n[ 240.201104] \u003cTASK\u003e\n[ 240.201502] ? ni_load_mi+0x80/0x80\n[ 240.202297] ? ___slab_alloc+0x465/0x830\n[ 240.202614] attr_load_runs_vcn+0x8c/0x1a0\n[ 240.202886] ? __kasan_slab_alloc+0x32/0x90\n[ 240.203157] ? attr_data_write_resident+0x250/0x250\n[ 240.203543] mi_read+0x133/0x2c0\n[ 240.203785] mi_get+0x70/0x140\n[ 240.204012] ni_load_mi_ex+0xfa/0x190\n[ 240.204346] ? ni_std5+0x90/0x90\n[ 240.204588] ? __kasan_kmalloc+0x88/0xb0\n[ 240.204859] ni_enum_attr_ex+0xf1/0x1c0\n[ 240.205107] ? ni_fname_type.part.0+0xd0/0xd0\n[ 240.205600] ? ntfs_load_attr_list+0xbe/0x300\n[ 240.205864] ? ntfs_cmp_names_cpu+0x125/0x180\n[ 240.206157] ntfs_iget5+0x56c/0x1870\n[ 240.206510] ? ntfs_get_block_bmap+0x70/0x70\n[ 240.206776] ? __kasan_kmalloc+0x88/0xb0\n[ 240.207030] ? set_blocksize+0x95/0x150\n[ 240.207545] ntfs_fill_super+0xb8f/0x1e20\n[ 240.207839] ? put_ntfs+0x1d0/0x1d0\n[ 240.208069] ? vsprintf+0x20/0x20\n[ 240.208467] ? mutex_unlock+0x81/0xd0\n[ 240.208846] ? set_blocksize+0x95/0x150\n[ 240.209221] get_tree_bdev+0x232/0x370\n[ 240.209804] ? put_ntfs+0x1d0/0x1d0\n[ 240.210519] ntfs_fs_get_tree+0x15/0x20\n[ 240.210991] vfs_get_tree+0x4c/0x130\n[ 240.211455] path_mount+0x645/0xfd0\n[ 240.211806] ? putname+0x80/0xa0\n[ 240.212112] ? finish_automount+0x2e0/0x2e0\n[ 240.212559] ? kmem_cache_free+0x110/0x390\n[ 240.212906] ? putname+0x80/0xa0\n[ 240.213329] do_mount+0xd6/0xf0\n[ 240.213829] ? path_mount+0xfd0/0xfd0\n[ 240.214246] ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x20\n[ 240.214774] __x64_sys_mount+0xca/0x110\n[ 240.215080] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90\n[ 240.215442] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n[ 240.215811] RIP: 0033:0x7f233b4e948a\n[ 240.216104] Code: 48 8b 0d 11 fa 2a 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 49 89 ca b8 a5 00 00 008\n[ 240.217615] RSP: 002b:00007fff02211ec8 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5\n[ 240.218718] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000561cdc35b060 RCX: 00007f233b4e948a\n[ 240.219556] RDX: 0000561cdc35b260 RSI: 0000561cdc35b2e0 RDI: 0000561cdc363af0\n[ 240.219975] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000561cdc35b280 R09: 0000000000000020\n[ 240.220403] R10: 00000000c0ed0000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000561cdc363af0\n[ 240.220803] R13: 000\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4342306f0f0d5ff4315a204d315c1b51b914fca5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ea6b3598406c58c5d09b6f4328e09616c077597f"},{"version":"4342306f0f0d5ff4315a204d315c1b51b914fca5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"26425414bfe5d302413b956ab2469176d4ff53aa"},{"version":"4342306f0f0d5ff4315a204d315c1b51b914fca5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1621734cd3047f7979da1d7d5c5444d583d8b0ed"},{"version":"4342306f0f0d5ff4315a204d315c1b51b914fca5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2681631c29739509eec59cc0b34e977bb04c6cf1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.15.87","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","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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