CVE-2022-48425 - kernel: ntfs3: invalid kfree in fs/ntfs3/inode.c

HIGH

kernel: ntfs3: invalid kfree in fs/ntfs3/inode.c

Published Mar 19, 2023

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.25%

In the Linux kernel through 6.2.7, fs/ntfs3/inode.c has an invalid kfree because it does not validate MFT flags before replaying logs.

Product	Package	State	Advisory
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	kernel	Not affected	n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	kernel	Not affected	n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	kernel-rt	Not affected	n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	kernel	Not affected	n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	kernel-rt	Not affected	n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	kernel	Not affected	n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	kernel-rt	Not affected	n/a

Red Hat statement

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is not affected by this flaw as it does not include support for the NTFS3 file system driver.

Weaknesses (2)

CWE-415

CWE-763

Link	Providers	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-48425		Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2179841		Issue Tracking
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=467333af2f7b95eeaa61a5b5369a80063cd971fd		Patch
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/fs/ntfs3?id=467333af2f7b95eeaa61a5b5369a80063cd971fd		Patch
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48425
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230413-0006/		Third Party Advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48425