CVE-2022-49550 Information

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.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0753245a72ec99824677586499ee2e0919164b3f https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/724bbe49c5e427cb077357d72d240a649f2e4054