linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-50841: fs/ntfs3: Add overflow check for attribute size

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Message-ID: <2025123019-CVE-2022-50841-06b9@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:13:27 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-50841: fs/ntfs3: Add overflow check for attribute size

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

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

fs/ntfs3: Add overflow check for attribute size

The offset addition could overflow and pass the used size check given an
attribute with very large size (e.g., 0xffffff7f) while parsing MFT
attributes. This could lead to out-of-bound memory R/W if we try to
access the next attribute derived by Add2Ptr(attr, asize)

[   32.963847] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff956a83c76067
[   32.964301] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[   32.964526] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[   32.964893] PGD 4dc01067 P4D 4dc01067 PUD 0
[   32.965316] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[   32.965727] CPU: 0 PID: 243 Comm: mount Not tainted 5.19.0+ #6
[   32.966050] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[   32.966628] RIP: 0010:mi_enum_attr+0x44/0x110
[   32.967239] Code: 89 f0 48 29 c8 48 89 c1 39 c7 0f 86 94 00 00 00 8b 56 04 83 fa 17 0f 86 88 00 00 00 89 d0 01 ca 48 01 f0 8d 4a 08 39 f9a
[   32.968101] RSP: 0018:ffffba15c06a7c38 EFLAGS: 00000283
[   32.968364] RAX: ffff956a83c76067 RBX: ffff956983c76050 RCX: 000000000000006f
[   32.968651] RDX: 0000000000000067 RSI: ffff956983c760e8 RDI: 00000000000001c8
[   32.968963] RBP: ffffba15c06a7c38 R08: 0000000000000064 R09: 00000000ffffff7f
[   32.969249] R10: 0000000000000007 R11: ffff956983c760e8 R12: ffff95698225e000
[   32.969870] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffba15c06a7cd8 R15: ffff95698225e170
[   32.970655] FS:  00007fdab8189e40(0000) GS:ffff9569fdc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   32.971098] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   32.971378] CR2: ffff956a83c76067 CR3: 0000000002c58000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[   32.972098] Call Trace:
[   32.972842]  <TASK>
[   32.973341]  ni_enum_attr_ex+0xda/0xf0
[   32.974087]  ntfs_iget5+0x1db/0xde0
[   32.974386]  ? slab_post_alloc_hook+0x53/0x270
[   32.974778]  ? ntfs_fill_super+0x4c7/0x12a0
[   32.975115]  ntfs_fill_super+0x5d6/0x12a0
[   32.975336]  get_tree_bdev+0x175/0x270
[   32.975709]  ? put_ntfs+0x150/0x150
[   32.975956]  ntfs_fs_get_tree+0x15/0x20
[   32.976191]  vfs_get_tree+0x2a/0xc0
[   32.976374]  ? capable+0x19/0x20
[   32.976572]  path_mount+0x484/0xaa0
[   32.977025]  ? putname+0x57/0x70
[   32.977380]  do_mount+0x80/0xa0
[   32.977555]  __x64_sys_mount+0x8b/0xe0
[   32.978105]  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[   32.978830]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
[   32.979311] RIP: 0033:0x7fdab72e948a
[   32.980015] Code: 48 8b 0d 11 fa 2a 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 49 89 ca b8 a5 00 00 008
[   32.981251] RSP: 002b:00007ffd15b87588 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
[   32.981832] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000557de0aaf060 RCX: 00007fdab72e948a
[   32.982234] RDX: 0000557de0aaf260 RSI: 0000557de0aaf2e0 RDI: 0000557de0ab7ce0
[   32.982714] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000557de0aaf280 R09: 0000000000000020
[   32.983046] R10: 00000000c0ed0000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000557de0ab7ce0
[   32.983494] R13: 0000557de0aaf260 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00000000ffffffff
[   32.984094]  </TASK>
[   32.984352] Modules linked in:
[   32.984753] CR2: ffff956a83c76067
[   32.985911] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[   32.986555] RIP: 0010:mi_enum_attr+0x44/0x110
[   32.987217] Code: 89 f0 48 29 c8 48 89 c1 39 c7 0f 86 94 00 00 00 8b 56 04 83 fa 17 0f 86 88 00 00 00 89 d0 01 ca 48 01 f0 8d 4a 08 39 f9a
[   32.988232] RSP: 0018:ffffba15c06a7c38 EFLAGS: 00000283
[   32.988532] RAX: ffff956a83c76067 RBX: ffff956983c76050 RCX: 000000000000006f
[   32.988916] RDX: 0000000000000067 RSI: ffff956983c760e8 RDI: 00000000000001c8
[   32.989356] RBP: ffffba15c06a7c38 R08: 0000000000000064 R09: 00000000ffffff7f
[   32.989994] R10: 0000000000000007 R11: ffff956983c760e8 R12: ffff95698225e000
[   32.990415] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffba15c06a7cd8 R15: ffff95698225e170
[   32.991011] FS:  00007fdab8189e40(0000) GS:ffff9569fdc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   32.991524] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   32.991936] CR2: ffff956a83c76067 CR3: 0000000002c58000 CR4: 00000000000006f0

This patch adds an overflow check

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-50841 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Fixed in 5.15.87 with commit d4489ba8fb806e07b43eecca5e9af5865d94cbf6
	Fixed in 6.0.17 with commit a1f0b873cf6ac1f00a749707d866494ed0708978
	Fixed in 6.1.3 with commit 0bb9f93ba63acfdb7c363d9f9fc2199fc6fa913d
	Fixed in 6.2 with commit e19c6277652efba203af4ecd8eed4bd30a0054c9

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2022-50841
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	fs/ntfs3/record.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4489ba8fb806e07b43eecca5e9af5865d94cbf6
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1f0b873cf6ac1f00a749707d866494ed0708978
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0bb9f93ba63acfdb7c363d9f9fc2199fc6fa913d
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e19c6277652efba203af4ecd8eed4bd30a0054c9