{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49708 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2022-49708 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2022-49708 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2022-49708 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49708 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49708/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49708/index.md)","id":"CVE-2022-49708","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49708/index.md","name":"CVE-2022-49708","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49708","GHSA-67hq-69g7-2v5w","UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49708"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel ext4","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can trigger a kernel BUG_ON in the ext4 filesystem, causing a system crash and denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-617","name":"Reachable Assertion"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix bug_on ext4_mb_use_inode_pa\n\nHulk Robot reported a BUG_ON:\n==================================================================\nkernel BUG at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:3211!\n[...]\nRIP: 0010:ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used.cold+0x85/0x136f\n[...]\nCall Trace:\n ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x9df/0x5d30\n ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1803/0x4d80\n ext4_map_blocks+0x3a4/0x1a10\n ext4_writepages+0x126d/0x2c30\n do_writepages+0x7f/0x1b0\n __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x285/0x3b0\n file_write_and_wait_range+0xb1/0x140\n ext4_sync_file+0x1aa/0xca0\n vfs_fsync_range+0xfb/0x260\n do_fsync+0x48/0xa0\n[...]\n==================================================================\n\nAbove issue may happen as follows:\n-------------------------------------\ndo_fsync\n vfs_fsync_range\n  ext4_sync_file\n   file_write_and_wait_range\n    __filemap_fdatawrite_range\n     do_writepages\n      ext4_writepages\n       mpage_map_and_submit_extent\n        mpage_map_one_extent\n         ext4_map_blocks\n          ext4_mb_new_blocks\n           ext4_mb_normalize_request\n            \u003e\u003e\u003e start + size \u003c= ac-\u003eac_o_ex.fe_logical\n           ext4_mb_regular_allocator\n            ext4_mb_simple_scan_group\n             ext4_mb_use_best_found\n              ext4_mb_new_preallocation\n               ext4_mb_new_inode_pa\n                ext4_mb_use_inode_pa\n                 \u003e\u003e\u003e set ac-\u003eac_b_ex.fe_len \u003c= 0\n           ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used\n            \u003e\u003e\u003e BUG_ON(ac-\u003eac_b_ex.fe_len \u003c= 0);\n\nwe can easily reproduce this problem with the following commands:\n\t`fallocate -l100M disk`\n\t`mkfs.ext4 -b 1024 -g 256 disk`\n\t`mount disk /mnt`\n\t`fsstress -d /mnt -l 0 -n 1000 -p 1`\n\nThe size must be smaller than or equal to EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP.\nTherefore, \"start + size \u003c= ac-\u003eac_o_ex.fe_logical\" may occur\nwhen the size is truncated. So start should be the start position of\nthe group where ac_o_ex.fe_logical is located after alignment.\nIn addition, when the value of fe_logical or EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP\nis very large, the value calculated by start_off is more accurate.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"ext4: fix bug_on ext4_mb_use_inode_pa","id":"CVE-2022-49708","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2022"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"cfi: Fix __cfi_slowpath_diag RCU usage with cpuidle","id":"CVE-2022-49709"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"ext4: add reserved GDT blocks check","id":"CVE-2022-49707"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-02-26","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-23","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker can trigger a kernel BUG_ON in the ext4 filesystem, causing a system crash and denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49708/"}