CVE-2022-48502 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.2. The ntfs3 subsystem does not properly check for correctness during disk reads leading to an out-of-bounds read in ntfs_set_ea in fs/ntfs3/xattr.c.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0e8235d28f3a0e9eda9f02ff67ee566d5f42b66b https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8778f030156c6cd16d72 https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.2