PT-2025-53933 · Ext2+2 · Ext2+2

Published 2022-01-01 · Updated 2026-04-20 · CVE-2022-50815

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions linux (affected versions not specified)

Description The Linux kernel contains a flaw related to the ext2 filesystem. Insufficient sanity checks for group and filesystem size could allow mounting crafted filesystems with extremely large group counts. This could potentially lead to issues during filesystem operations.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-50815

Affected Products

Debian

Linux Kernel

Ext2

References · 16

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/50xxx/CVE-2022-50815.json · Exploit
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-50815 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2022-50815 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2022-50815 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50815 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50815 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50815 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-50815 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-50815 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50815 · Security Note
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git · Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d766f2d1e3e3bd44024a7f971ffcf8b8fbb7c5d2 · Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/321440079763998076b75e0c802524e2218a7d97 · Note
• https://git.kernel.org/linus/d766f2d1e3e3bd44024a7f971ffcf8b8fbb7c5d2 · Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40ff52527daec00cf1530c17a95636916ddd3b38 · Note