Riskcovery

CVE-2022-49550

fs/ntfs3: provide block_invalidate_folio to fix memory leak

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Feb 26, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Feb 26, 2025

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Description

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

fs/ntfs3: provide block_invalidate_folio to fix memory leak

The ntfs3 filesystem lacks the 'invalidate_folio' method and it causes memory leak. If you write to the filesystem and then unmount it, the cached written data are not freed and they are permanently leaked.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 7ba13abbd31ee9265e88d7dc029c0f786e665192 to before 0753245a72ec99824677586499ee2e0919164b3fAffected
  • 7ba13abbd31ee9265e88d7dc029c0f786e665192 to before 724bbe49c5e427cb077357d72d240a649f2e4054Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.18Affected
  • before 5.18Not affected
  • 5.18.3 through 5.18.*Not affected
  • 5.19 and laterNot affected

References

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