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Red Hat: CVE-2022-48712: kernel: ext4: fix error handling in ext4_fc_record_modified_inode()

Name: Red Hat: CVE-2022-48712: kernel: ext4: fix error handling in ext4_fc_record_modified_inode()
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2024-06-20T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, Red Hat, 2022, 48712, kernel, no-fix-redhat-rpm-package, Severity 6

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Severity

CVSS

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

Published

Jun 20, 2024

Added

Jul 9, 2025

Modified

Jul 10, 2025

Description

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

ext4: fix error handling in ext4_fc_record_modified_inode()

Current code does not fully takes care of krealloc() error case, which
could lead to silent memory corruption or a kernel bug. This patch
fixes that.

Also it cleans up some duplicated error handling logic from various
functions in fast_commit.c file.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package

References

NVD-CVE-2022-48712

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