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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-50581" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-22T13:23:33.421Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:59:11.666Z" 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-2022-50581" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50581.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50581" title: "hfs: fix OOB Read in __hfs_brec_find" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nhfs: fix OOB Read in __hfs_brec_find\n\nSyzbot reported a OOB read bug:\n\n==================================================================\nBUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in hfs_strcmp+0x117/0x190\nfs/hfs/string.c:84\nRead of size 1 at addr ffff88807eb62c4e by task kworker/u4:1/11\nCPU: 1 PID: 11 Comm: kworker/u4:1 Not tainted\n6.1.0-rc6-syzkaller-00308-g644e9524388a #0\nWorkqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-7:0)\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0x1b1/0x28e lib/dump_stack.c:106\n print_address_description+0x74/0x340 mm/kasan/report.c:284\n print_report+0x107/0x1f0 mm/kasan/report.c:395\n kasan_report+0xcd/0x100 mm/kasan/report.c:495\n hfs_strcmp+0x117/0x190 fs/hfs/string.c:84\n __hfs_brec_find+0x213/0x5c0 fs/hfs/bfind.c:75\n hfs_brec_find+0x276/0x520 fs/hfs/bfind.c:138\n hfs_write_inode+0x34c/0xb40 fs/hfs/inode.c:462\n write_inode fs/fs-writeback.c:1440 [inline]\n\nIf the input inode of hfs_write_inode() is incorrect:\nstruct inode\n struct hfs_inode_info\n struct hfs_cat_key\n struct hfs_name\n u8 len # len is greater than HFS_NAMELEN(31) which is the\nmaximum length of an HFS filename\n\nOOB read occurred:\nhfs_write_inode()\n hfs_brec_find()\n __hfs_brec_find()\n hfs_cat_keycmp()\n hfs_strcmp() # OOB read occurred due to len is too large\n\nFix this by adding a Check on len in hfs_write_inode() before calling\nhfs_brec_find()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8c40f2dbae603ef0bd21e87c63f54ec59fd88256"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c886c10a6eddb99923b315f42bf63f448883ef9a"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2344f17c0a89c181ab1a9fef57fd8c3bddfd6e30"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"90103ccb6e60aa4efe48993d23d6a528472f2233"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4fd3a11804c8877ff11fec59c5c53f1635331e3e"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"367296925c7625c3969d2a78d7a3e1dee161beb5"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e9e692917c6e10a7066c7a6d092dcdc3d4e329f3"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bfc9d8f27f89717431a6aecce42ae230b437433f"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8d824e69d9f3fa3121b2dda25053bae71e2460d2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"4.9.337","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.303","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.229","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.163","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.86","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## 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