CVE-2022-49769

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49769
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49769.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49769
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-05-01T14:09:07.526Z
Modified
2026-03-20T11:47:13.487223Z
Summary
gfs2: Check sb_bsize_shift after reading superblock
Details

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

gfs2: Check sbbsizeshift after reading superblock

Fuzzers like to scribble over sbbsizeshift but in reality it's very unlikely that this field would be corrupted on its own. Nevertheless it should be checked to avoid the possibility of messy mount errors due to bad calculations. It's always a fixed value based on the block size so we can just check that it's the expected value.

Tested with:

mkfs.gfs2 -O -p lock_nolock /dev/vdb
for i in 0 -1 64 65 32 33; do
    gfs2_edit -p sb field sb_bsize_shift $i /dev/vdb
    mount /dev/vdb /mnt/test && umount /mnt/test
done

Before this patch we get a withdraw after

[ 76.413681] gfs2: fsid=loop0.0: fatal: invalid metadata block [ 76.413681] bh = 19 (type: exp=5, found=4) [ 76.413681] function = gfs2metabuffer, file = fs/gfs2/meta_io.c, line = 492

and with UBSAN configured we also get complaints like

[ 76.373395] UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:295:19 [ 76.373815] shift exponent 4294967287 is too large for 64-bit type 'long unsigned int'

After the patch, these complaints don't appear, mount fails immediately and we get an explanation in dmesg.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/49xxx/CVE-2022-49769.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
b3b94faa5fe5968827ba0640ee9fba4b3e7f736e
Fixed
d6b1e8ea6f3418c3b461ad5a35cdc93c996b2c87
Fixed
1ad197097343568066a8ffaa27ee7d0ae6d9f476
Fixed
15c83fa0fd659dd9fbdc940a560b61236e876a80
Fixed
8b6534c9ae9dba5489703a19d8ba6c8f2cfa33c2
Fixed
5fa30be7ba81191b0a0c7239a89befc0c94286d5
Fixed
28275a7c84d21c55ab3282d897f284d8d527173c
Fixed
16670534c7cff1acd918a6a5ec751b14e7436b76
Fixed
670f8ce56dd0632dc29a0322e188cc73ce3c6b92

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49769.json"