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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-52622" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-03-26T17:19:23.838Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:17:06.250Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z" 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-2023-52622" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52622.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52622" title: "ext4: avoid online resizing failures due to oversized flex bg" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: avoid online resizing failures due to oversized flex bg\n\nWhen we online resize an ext4 filesystem with a oversized flexbg_size,\n\n mkfs.ext4 -F -G 67108864 $dev -b 4096 100M\n mount $dev $dir\n resize2fs $dev 16G\n\nthe following WARN_ON is triggered:\n==================================================================\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 427 at mm/page_alloc.c:4402 __alloc_pages+0x411/0x550\nModules linked in: sg(E)\nCPU: 0 PID: 427 Comm: resize2fs Tainted: G E 6.6.0-rc5+ #314\nRIP: 0010:__alloc_pages+0x411/0x550\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __kmalloc_large_node+0xa2/0x200\n __kmalloc+0x16e/0x290\n ext4_resize_fs+0x481/0xd80\n __ext4_ioctl+0x1616/0x1d90\n ext4_ioctl+0x12/0x20\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0xf0/0x150\n do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90\n==================================================================\n\nThis is because flexbg_size is too large and the size of the new_group_data\narray to be allocated exceeds MAX_ORDER. Currently, the minimum value of\nMAX_ORDER is 8, the minimum value of PAGE_SIZE is 4096, the corresponding\nmaximum number of groups that can be allocated is:\n\n (PAGE_SIZE \u003c\u003c MAX_ORDER) / sizeof(struct ext4_new_group_data) ≈ 21845\n\nAnd the value that is down-aligned to the power of 2 is 16384. Therefore,\nthis value is defined as MAX_RESIZE_BG, and the number of groups added\neach time does not exceed this value during resizing, and is added multiple\ntimes to complete the online resizing. The difference is that the metadata\nin a flex_bg may be more dispersed." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"28c7bac0091687e6116ebd6c179e154ae4053c90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cd1f93ca97a9136989f3bd2bf90696732a2ed644"},{"version":"28c7bac0091687e6116ebd6c179e154ae4053c90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b183fe8702e78bba3dcef8e7193cab6898abee07"},{"version":"28c7bac0091687e6116ebd6c179e154ae4053c90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cfbbb3199e71b63fc26cee0ebff327c47128a1e8"},{"version":"28c7bac0091687e6116ebd6c179e154ae4053c90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d76c8d7ffe163c6bf2f1ef680b0539c2b3902b90"},{"version":"28c7bac0091687e6116ebd6c179e154ae4053c90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6d2cbf517dcabc093159cf138ad5712c9c7fa954"},{"version":"28c7bac0091687e6116ebd6c179e154ae4053c90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8b1413dbfe49646eda2c00c0f1144ee9d3368e0c"},{"version":"28c7bac0091687e6116ebd6c179e154ae4053c90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dc3e0f55bec4410f3d74352c4a7c79f518088ee2"},{"version":"28c7bac0091687e6116ebd6c179e154ae4053c90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5d1935ac02ca5aee364a449a35e2977ea84509b0"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.3"},{"version":"4.19.307","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.269","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.210","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.149","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.77","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8","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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