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Debian: CVE-2022-49166: linux -- security update

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

Feb 27, 2025

Added

Feb 27, 2025

Modified

Mar 30, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ntfs: add sanity check on allocation size

ntfs_read_inode_mount invokes ntfs_malloc_nofs with zero allocation
size. It triggers one BUG in the __ntfs_malloc function.

Fix this by adding sanity check on ni->attr_list_size.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux

References

CVE-2022-49166
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-49166
EUVD-EUVD-2022-55059
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2022-55059

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