CVE-2022-49317 [Medium] | Security Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: avoid infinite loop to flush node pages xfstests/generic/475 can give EIO all the time which give an infinite loop to flush node page like below. Let's avoid it. [16418.518551] Call Trace: [16418.518553] ? dm_submit_bio+0x48/0x400 [16418.518574] ? submit_bio_checks+0x1ac/0x5a0 [16418.525207] __submit_bio+0x1a9/0x230 [16418.525210] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x29e/0x3c0 [16418.525223] submit_bio_noacct+0xa8/0x2b0 [16418.525226] submit_bio+0x4d/0x130 [16418.525238] __submit_bio+0x49/0x310 [f2fs] [16418.525339] ? bio_add_page+0x6a/0x90 [16418.525344] f2fs_submit_page_bio+0x134/0x1f0 [f2fs] [16418.525365] read_node_page+0x125/0x1b0 [f2fs] [16418.525388] __get_node_page.part.0+0x58/0x3f0 [f2fs] [16418.525409] __get_node_page+0x2f/0x60 [f2fs] [16418.525431] f2fs_get_dnode_of_data+0x423/0x860 [f2fs] [16418.525452] ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20 [16418.525458] ? __mod_memcg_state.part.0+0x2a/0x30 [16418.525465] ? __mod_memcg_lruvec_state+0x27/0x40 [16418.525467] ? __xa_set_mark+0x57/0x70 [16418.525472] f2fs_do_write_data_page+0x10e/0x7b0 [f2fs] [16418.525493] f2fs_write_single_data_page+0x555/0x830 [f2fs] [16418.525514] ? sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x4e/0x90 [16418.525518] ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20 [16418.525523] f2fs_write_cache_pages+0x303/0x880 [f2fs] [16418.525545] ? blk_flush_plug_list+0x47/0x100 [16418.525548] f2fs_write_data_pages+0xfd/0x320 [f2fs] [16418.525569] do_writepages+0xd5/0x210 [16418.525648] filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x7d/0xc0 [16418.525655] filemap_fdatawrite+0x50/0x70 [16418.525658] f2fs_sync_dirty_inodes+0xa4/0x230 [f2fs] [16418.525679] f2fs_write_checkpoint+0x16d/0x1720 [f2fs] [16418.525699] ? ttwu_do_wakeup+0x1c/0x160 [16418.525709] ? ttwu_do_activate+0x6d/0xd0 [16418.525711] ? __wait_for_common+0x11d/0x150 [16418.525715] kill_f2fs_super+0xca/0x100 [f2fs] [16418.525733] deactivate_locked_super+0x3b/0xb0 [16418.525739] deactivate_super+0x40/0x50 [16418.525741] cleanup_mnt+0x139/0x190 [16418.525747] __cleanup_mnt+0x12/0x20 [16418.525749] task_work_run+0x6d/0xa0 [16418.525765] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x1ad/0x1b0 [16418.525771] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x27/0x50 [16418.525774] do_syscall_64+0x48/0xc0 [16418.525776] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

#	Date	Old EPSS score	New EPSS score	Delta (New - Old)
1	2025-02-27	—	0.04%	—

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Old EPSS score

New EPSS score

Delta (New - Old)

2025-02-27

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0.04%

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Base score	Version	Severity	Vector	Exploitability	Impact	Score source
5.5	3.1	MEDIUM	`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H` Click to expand Attack vector (AV:L) They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by. Attack complexity (AC:L) Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup. Privileges required (PR:L) A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin. User interaction (UI:N) Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping. Scope (S:U) Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems. Confidentiality (C:N) Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way. Integrity (I:N) Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged. Availability (A:H) Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.	1.8	3.6	[email protected]
5.5	3.1	MEDIUM	`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H` Click to expand Attack vector (AV:L) They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by. Attack complexity (AC:L) Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup. Privileges required (PR:L) A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin. User interaction (UI:N) Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping. Scope (S:U) Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems. Confidentiality (C:N) Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way. Integrity (I:N) Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged. Availability (A:H) Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.	1.8	3.6	134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Base score

Version

Severity

Vector

Exploitability

Impact

Score source

5.5

3.1

MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand

Attack vector (AV:L): They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L): Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L): A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:N): Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U): Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N): Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N): Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H): Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.

1.8

3.6

[email protected]

5.5

3.1

MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand

Attack vector (AV:L): They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L): Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L): A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:N): Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U): Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N): Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N): Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H): Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.

1.8

3.6

134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

OS Trackers for CVE-2022-49317

vendor	priority	summary	link
`debian`	not yet assigned	CVE-2022-49317 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 4, open 1.	https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-49317
`redhat`	medium	—	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-49317
`suse`	medium	CVE-2022-49317 severity moderate: SUSE including 26 source package names (cluster-md-kmp-default, dlm-kmp-default, …), 245 product×package rows across 46 product lines (SLES-LTSS-TERADATA 15 SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP5, … (46 product lines)): Known Not Affected 245.	https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-49317/
`ubuntu`	medium	CVE-2022-49317 medium priority: Ubuntu including 158 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1551 status rows across 10 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1145, ignored 150, released 92, not-affected 89, needed 75.	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-49317

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2022-49317

Vendor	Product	Version	Raw CPE
linux	linux_kernel	< 5.18.4	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::

References for CVE-2022-49317

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7b8618aa2f0f926ce85f2486ac835a85c753ca7	Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd47ea5d776d8b524fb6f60de3240f95603901dd	Patch

URL

CVE-2022-49317 | f2fs: avoid infinite loop to flush node pages

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2022-49317

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2022-49317

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2022-49317

OS Trackers for CVE-2022-49317

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2022-49317

References for CVE-2022-49317