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CVE-2022-49880: ext4: fix warning in 'ext4_da_release_space'

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 22/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.21% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Linux Linux 0a43c015e98121c91a76154edf42280ce1a8a883, 0de5ee103747fd3a24f1c010c79caabe35e8f0bb, 1b8f787ef547230a3249bcf897221ef0cc78481b.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 0a43c015e98121c91a76154edf42280ce1a8a883, 0de5ee103747fd3a24f1c010c79caabe35e8f0bb, 1b8f787ef547230a3249bcf897221ef0cc78481b or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix warning in 'ext4_da_release_space' Syzkaller report issue as follows: EXT4-fs (loop0): Free/Dirty block details EXT4-fs (loop0): free_blocks=0 EXT4-fs (loop0): dirty_blocks=0 EXT4-fs (loop0): Block reservation details EXT4-fs (loop0): i_reserved_data_blocks=0 EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_da_release_space:1527: ext4_da_release_space: ino 18, to_free 1 with only 0 reserved data blocks ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 92 at fs/ext4/inode.c:1528 ext4_da_release_space+0x25e/0x370 fs/ext4/inode.c:1524 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 92 Comm: kworker/u4:4 Not tainted 6.0.0-syzkaller-09423-g493ffd6605b2 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/22/2022 Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-7:0) RIP: 0010:ext4_da_release_space+0x25e/0x370 fs/ext4/inode.c:1528 RSP: 0018:ffffc900015f6c90 EFLAGS: 00010296 RAX: 42215896cd52ea00 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 42215896cd52ea00 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000080000001 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: 1ffff1100e907d96 R08: ffffffff816aa79d R09: fffff520002bece5 R10: fffff520002bece5 R11: 1ffff920002bece4 R12: ffff888021fd2000 R13: ffff88807483ecb0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff88807483e740 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00005555569ba628 CR3: 000000000c88e000 CR4: 00000000003506f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> ext4_es_remove_extent+0x1ab/0x260 fs/ext4/extents_status.c:1461 mpage_release_unused_pages+0x24d/0xef0 fs/ext4/inode.c:1589 ext4_writepages+0x12eb/0x3be0 fs/ext4/inode.c:2852 do_writepages+0x3c3/0x680 mm/page-writeback.c:2469 __writeback_single_inode+0xd1/0x670 fs/fs-writeback.c:1587 writeback_sb_inodes+0xb3b/0x18f0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1870 wb_writeback+0x41f/0x7b0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2044 wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2187 [inline] wb_workfn+0x3cb/0xef0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2227 process_one_work+0x877/0xdb0 kernel/workqueue.c:2289 worker_thread+0xb14/0x1330 kernel/workqueue.c:2436 kthread+0x266/0x300 kernel/kthread.c:376 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:306 </TASK> Above issue may happens as follows: ext4_da_write_begin ext4_create_inline_data ext4_clear_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS); ext4_set_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_INLINE_DATA); __ext4_ioctl ext4_ext_migrate -> will lead to eh->eh_entries not zero, and set extent flag ext4_da_write_begin ext4_da_convert_inline_data_to_extent ext4_da_write_inline_data_begin ext4_da_map_blocks ext4_insert_delayed_block if (!ext4_es_scan_clu(inode, &ext4_es_is_delonly, lblk)) if (!ext4_es_scan_clu(inode, &ext4_es_is_mapped, lblk)) ext4_clu_mapped(inode, EXT4_B2C(sbi, lblk)); -> will return 1 allocated = true; ext4_es_insert_delayed_block(inode, lblk, allocated); ext4_writepages mpage_map_and_submit_extent(handle, &mpd, &give_up_on_write); -> return -ENOSPC mpage_release_unused_pages(&mpd, give_up_on_write); -> give_up_on_write == 1 ext4_es_remove_extent ext4_da_release_space(inode, reserved); if (unlikely(to_free > ei->i_reserved_data_blocks)) -> to_free == 1 but ei->i_reserved_data_blocks == 0 -> then trigger warning as above To solve above issue, forbid inode do migrate which has inline data.

MediumCVSS 5.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
May 1, 2025
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 12th percentile
CWE
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Action score

22

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
22 / 40 · 5.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

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VendorProduct
linuxlinux kernel

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • linux linux kernelbefore 4.9.333
  • linux linux kernel4.10 and later · before 4.14.299
  • linux linux kernel4.15 and later · before 4.19.265
  • linux linux kernel4.20 and later · before 5.4.224
  • linux linux kernel5.5 and later · before 5.10.154
  • linux linux kernel5.11 and later · before 5.15.78
  • linux linux kernel5.16 and later · before 6.0.8
  • linux linux kernel6.1

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Linux). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Linux Linux

    • 3.8affected
    • 67cf5b09a46f72e048501b84996f2f77bc42e947 and later · before 0de5ee103747fd3a24f1c010c79caabe35e8f0bbaffected · git
    • 67cf5b09a46f72e048501b84996f2f77bc42e947 and later · before c3bf1e95cfa7d950dc3c064d0c2e3d06b427bc63affected · git
    • 67cf5b09a46f72e048501b84996f2f77bc42e947 and later · before 890d738f569fa9412b70ba09f15407f17a52da20affected · git
    • 67cf5b09a46f72e048501b84996f2f77bc42e947 and later · before 72743d5598b9096950bbfd6a9b7f173d156eea97affected · git
    • 67cf5b09a46f72e048501b84996f2f77bc42e947 and later · before 5370b965b7a945bb8f48b9ee23d83a76a947902eaffected · git
    • 67cf5b09a46f72e048501b84996f2f77bc42e947 and later · before 0a43c015e98121c91a76154edf42280ce1a8a883affected · git
    • 67cf5b09a46f72e048501b84996f2f77bc42e947 and later · before 89bee03d2fb8c54119b38ac6c24e7d60fae036b6affected · git
    • 67cf5b09a46f72e048501b84996f2f77bc42e947 and later · before 1b8f787ef547230a3249bcf897221ef0cc78481baffected · git
    • before 3.8not affected · semver

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:12linuxbefore 6.0.8-16.0.8-1

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    22Monitor

Remediation

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Product / packageFixed versionSource
Linux Linux0a43c015e98121c91a76154edf42280ce1a8a883Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux0de5ee103747fd3a24f1c010c79caabe35e8f0bbVendor (CNA)
Linux Linux1b8f787ef547230a3249bcf897221ef0cc78481bVendor (CNA)
Linux Linux5370b965b7a945bb8f48b9ee23d83a76a947902eVendor (CNA)
Linux Linux72743d5598b9096950bbfd6a9b7f173d156eea97Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux890d738f569fa9412b70ba09f15407f17a52da20Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux89bee03d2fb8c54119b38ac6c24e7d60fae036b6Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linuxc3bf1e95cfa7d950dc3c064d0c2e3d06b427bc63Vendor (CNA)
debian:linux6.0.8-1 · Debian:12Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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EPSS, last 120 days

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Patch and commit links

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Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
none
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

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CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

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References

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