CVE-2022-50346 — Use of Uninitialized Resource in Linux

CWE-908 — Use of Uninitialized Resource5 documents5 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.89%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedSep 16

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: init quota for 'old.inode' in 'ext4_rename' Syzbot found the following issue: ext4_parse_param: s_want_extra_isize=128 ext4_inode_info_init: s_want_extra_isize=32 ext4_rename: old.inode=ffff88823869a2c8 old.dir=ffff888238699828 new.inode=ffff88823869d7e8 new.dir=ffff888238699828 __ext4_mark_inode_dirty: inode=ffff888238699828 ea_isize=32 want_ea_size=128 __ext4_mark_inode_dirty: inode=ffff88823869a2c8 ea_isize=32 want_ea…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel4.10 — 4.14.303+7
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.178-1+3
▶CVEListV5linux/linux6dd4ee7cab7e3a17c571aebd444f4344c8c4946e — 67f6d5a4043f3db0c6bb0e14a0d97a7be8bfb8b5+9
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.4-1 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
CVE-2022-50346: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: init quota for 'old↗2025-09-16
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GHSA
GHSA-j3gp-gm3j-39rf: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: init quota for 'old↗2025-09-16
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: ext4: init quota for 'old.inode' in 'ext4_rename'↗2025-09-16
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Debian
CVE-2022-50346: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: init ...↗2022
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