Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2022-50839

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jbd2: fix potential buffer head reference count leak As in 'jbd2_fc_wait_bufs' if buffer isn't uptodate, will return -EIO without update 'journal->j_fc_off'. But 'jbd2_fc_release_bufs' will release buffer head from ‘j_fc_off - 1’ if 'bh' is NULL will terminal release which will lead to buffer head buffer head reference count leak. To solve above issue, update 'journal->j_fc_off' before return -EIO.

EPSS: 0.002 (10.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Linux — versions ff780b91efe901b8eecd8114785abae5341820ad, 5.10, 0

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