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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-50344" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-16T16:11:23.345Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:17:37.555Z" 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-2022-50344" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50344.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50344" title: "ext4: fix null-ptr-deref in ext4_write_info" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix null-ptr-deref in ext4_write_info\n\nI caught a null-ptr-deref bug as follows:\n==================================================================\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000068-0x000000000000006f]\nCPU: 1 PID: 1589 Comm: umount Not tainted 5.10.0-02219-dirty #339\nRIP: 0010:ext4_write_info+0x53/0x1b0\n[...]\nCall Trace:\n dquot_writeback_dquots+0x341/0x9a0\n ext4_sync_fs+0x19e/0x800\n __sync_filesystem+0x83/0x100\n sync_filesystem+0x89/0xf0\n generic_shutdown_super+0x79/0x3e0\n kill_block_super+0xa1/0x110\n deactivate_locked_super+0xac/0x130\n deactivate_super+0xb6/0xd0\n cleanup_mnt+0x289/0x400\n __cleanup_mnt+0x16/0x20\n task_work_run+0x11c/0x1c0\n exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x203/0x210\n syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x5b/0x3a0\n do_syscall_64+0x59/0x70\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9\n ==================================================================\n\nAbove issue may happen as follows:\n-------------------------------------\nexit_to_user_mode_prepare\n task_work_run\n __cleanup_mnt\n cleanup_mnt\n deactivate_super\n deactivate_locked_super\n kill_block_super\n generic_shutdown_super\n shrink_dcache_for_umount\n dentry = sb-\u003es_root\n sb-\u003es_root = NULL \u003c--- Here set NULL\n sync_filesystem\n __sync_filesystem\n sb-\u003es_op-\u003esync_fs \u003e ext4_sync_fs\n dquot_writeback_dquots\n sb-\u003edq_op-\u003ewrite_info \u003e ext4_write_info\n ext4_journal_start(d_inode(sb-\u003es_root), EXT4_HT_QUOTA, 2)\n d_inode(sb-\u003es_root)\n s_root-\u003ed_inode \u003c--- Null pointer dereference\n\nTo solve this problem, we use ext4_journal_start_sb directly\nto avoid s_root being used." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a1177825719ccef3f76ef39bbfd5ebb6087d53c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dc451578446afd03c0c21913993c08898a691435"},{"version":"a1177825719ccef3f76ef39bbfd5ebb6087d53c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f4b5ff0b794aa94afac7269c494550ca2f66511b"},{"version":"a1177825719ccef3f76ef39bbfd5ebb6087d53c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"947264e00c46de19a016fd81218118c708fed2f3"},{"version":"a1177825719ccef3f76ef39bbfd5ebb6087d53c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3638aa1c7d87c0ca0aef23cf58cae2c48e7daca4"},{"version":"a1177825719ccef3f76ef39bbfd5ebb6087d53c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f34ab95162763cd7352f46df169296eec28b688d"},{"version":"a1177825719ccef3f76ef39bbfd5ebb6087d53c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"533c60a0b97cee5daab376933f486207e6680fb7"},{"version":"a1177825719ccef3f76ef39bbfd5ebb6087d53c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4a657319cfabd6199fd0b7b65bbebf6ded7a11c1"},{"version":"a1177825719ccef3f76ef39bbfd5ebb6087d53c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bb420e8afc854d2a1caaa23a0c129839acfb7888"},{"version":"a1177825719ccef3f76ef39bbfd5ebb6087d53c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f9c1f248607d5546075d3f731e7607d5571f2b60"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.6"},{"version":"4.9.331","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.296","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.262","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.220","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.150","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.75","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.19.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.19.*"},{"version":"6.0.3","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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