CVE-2022-50299

md: Replace snprintf with scnprintf

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 15, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Sep 15, 2025

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Description

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

md: Replace snprintf with scnprintf

Current code produces a warning as shown below when total characters in the constituent block device names plus the slashes exceeds 200. snprintf() returns the number of characters generated from the given input, which could cause the expression “200 – len” to wrap around to a large positive number. Fix this by using scnprintf() instead, which returns the actual number of characters written into the buffer.

[ 1513.267938] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 1513.267943] WARNING: CPU: 15 PID: 37247 at <snip>/lib/vsprintf.c:2509 vsnprintf+0x2c8/0x510 [ 1513.267944] Modules linked in: <snip> [ 1513.267969] CPU: 15 PID: 37247 Comm: mdadm Not tainted 5.4.0-1085-azure #90~18.04.1-Ubuntu [ 1513.267969] Hardware name: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine/Virtual Machine, BIOS Hyper-V UEFI Release v4.1 05/09/2022 [ 1513.267971] RIP: 0010:vsnprintf+0x2c8/0x510 <-snip-> [ 1513.267982] Call Trace: [ 1513.267986] snprintf+0x45/0x70 [ 1513.267990] ? disk_name+0x71/0xa0 [ 1513.267993] dump_zones+0x114/0x240 [raid0] [ 1513.267996] ? _cond_resched+0x19/0x40 [ 1513.267998] raid0_run+0x19e/0x270 [raid0] [ 1513.268000] md_run+0x5e0/0xc50 [ 1513.268003] ? security_capable+0x3f/0x60 [ 1513.268005] do_md_run+0x19/0x110 [ 1513.268006] md_ioctl+0x195e/0x1f90 [ 1513.268007] blkdev_ioctl+0x91f/0x9f0 [ 1513.268010] block_ioctl+0x3d/0x50 [ 1513.268012] do_vfs_ioctl+0xa9/0x640 [ 1513.268014] ? __fput+0x162/0x260 [ 1513.268016] ksys_ioctl+0x75/0x80 [ 1513.268017] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x1a/0x20 [ 1513.268019] do_syscall_64+0x5e/0x200 [ 1513.268021] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 766038846e875740cf4c20dfc5d5b292ba47360a to before 3b0a2bd51f60418ecd67493586a2bb2174199de3Affected
  • 766038846e875740cf4c20dfc5d5b292ba47360a to before 897b1450abe5a67c842a5d24173ce4449ccdfa94Affected
  • 766038846e875740cf4c20dfc5d5b292ba47360a to before 97238b88583c27c9d3b4a0cedb45f816523f17c3Affected
  • 766038846e875740cf4c20dfc5d5b292ba47360a to before 76694e9ce0b2238c0a5f3ba54f9361dd3770ec78Affected
  • 766038846e875740cf4c20dfc5d5b292ba47360a to before 5d8259c9d1915a50c60c7d6e9e7fb9b7da64a175Affected
  • 766038846e875740cf4c20dfc5d5b292ba47360a to before 41ca95033a0c47cd6dace1f0a36a6eb5ebe799e6Affected
  • 766038846e875740cf4c20dfc5d5b292ba47360a to before f95825c4e51cf9a653b0ef947ac78401fc9d3a40Affected
  • 766038846e875740cf4c20dfc5d5b292ba47360a to before 1727fd5015d8f93474148f94e34cda5aa6ad4a43Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.10Affected
  • before 4.10Not affected
  • 4.14.296 through 4.14.*Not affected
  • 4.19.262 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.220 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.150 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.75 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.19.17 through 5.19.*Not affected
  • 6.0.3 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1 and laterNot affected

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