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Debian: CVE-2022-50057: linux -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 20, 2025
Added
Jun 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

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

fs/ntfs3: Fix NULL deref in ntfs_update_mftmirr

If ntfs_fill_super() wasn't called then sbi->sb will be equal to NULL.
Code should check this ptr before dereferencing. Syzbot hit this issue
via passing wrong mount param as can be seen from log below

Fail log:
ntfs3: Unknown parameter 'iochvrset'
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000003: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f]
CPU: 1 PID: 3589 Comm: syz-executor210 Not tainted 5.18.0-rc3-syzkaller-00016-gb253435746d9 #0
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
put_ntfs+0x1ed/0x2a0 fs/ntfs3/super.c:463
ntfs_fs_free+0x6a/0xe0 fs/ntfs3/super.c:1363
put_fs_context+0x119/0x7a0 fs/fs_context.c:469
do_new_mount+0x2b4/0xad0 fs/namespace.c:3044
do_mount fs/namespace.c:3383 [inline]
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3591 [inline]

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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