{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50435 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2022-50435 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 Oct 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-2022-50435 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2022-50435 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 Oct 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-2022-50435 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-2022-50435/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50435/index.md)","id":"CVE-2022-50435","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50435/index.md","name":"CVE-2022-50435","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50435","GHSA-7mww-5m6h-hg34","UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50435"],"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 crash in the ext4 filesystem by mixing direct and buffered I/O operations, causing a denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"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":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: avoid crash when inline data creation follows DIO write\n\nWhen inode is created and written to using direct IO, there is nothing\nto clear the EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA flag. Thus when inode gets\ntruncated later to say 1 byte and written using normal write, we will\ntry to store the data as inline data. This confuses the code later\nbecause the inode now has both normal block and inline data allocated\nand the confusion manifests for example as:\n\nkernel BUG at fs/ext4/inode.c:2721!\ninvalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN\nCPU: 0 PID: 359 Comm: repro Not tainted 5.19.0-rc8-00001-g31ba1e3b8305-dirty #15\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.0-1.fc36 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:ext4_writepages+0x363d/0x3660\nRSP: 0018:ffffc90000ccf260 EFLAGS: 00010293\nRAX: ffffffff81e1abcd RBX: 0000008000000000 RCX: ffff88810842a180\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000008000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000\nRBP: ffffc90000ccf650 R08: ffffffff81e17d58 R09: ffffed10222c680b\nR10: dfffe910222c680c R11: 1ffff110222c680a R12: ffff888111634128\nR13: ffffc90000ccf880 R14: 0000008410000000 R15: 0000000000000001\nFS:  00007f72635d2640(0000) GS:ffff88811b000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000565243379180 CR3: 000000010aa74000 CR4: 0000000000150eb0\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n do_writepages+0x397/0x640\n filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x151/0x1b0\n file_write_and_wait_range+0x1c9/0x2b0\n ext4_sync_file+0x19e/0xa00\n vfs_fsync_range+0x17b/0x190\n ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x488/0x530\n ext4_file_write_iter+0x449/0x1b90\n vfs_write+0xbcd/0xf40\n ksys_write+0x198/0x2c0\n __x64_sys_write+0x7b/0x90\n do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nFix the problem by clearing EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA when we are doing\ndirect IO write to a file.","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: avoid crash when inline data creation follows DIO write","id":"CVE-2022-50435","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2022"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"ext4: don't set up encryption key during jbd2 transaction","id":"CVE-2022-50436"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"blk-mq: fix possible memleak when register 'hctx' failed","id":"CVE-2022-50434"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-10-01","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":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker can trigger a kernel crash in the ext4 filesystem by mixing direct and buffered I/O operations, causing a denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50435/"}