linux — security advisory
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext2: Add sanity checks for group and filesystem size Add sanity check that filesystem size does not exceed the underlying device size and that group size is big enough so that metadata can fit into it. This avoid trying to mount some crafted filesystems with extremely large group counts.
- Products
- linux
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 6.0.3-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-50815
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 14:22 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext2: Add sanity checks for group and filesystem size Add sanity check that filesystem size does not exceed the underlying device size and that group size is big enough so that metadata can fit into it. This avoid trying to mount some crafted filesystems with extremely large group counts.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50815
linux
Fixed versions: 6.0.3-1
linux
Fixed versions: 6.0.3-1
linux
Fixed versions: 6.0.3-1
Complete source record
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