CVE-2022-48712: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix error handling in ext4_fc_record_modified_inode() Current code does not fully takes care of krealloc() error case, which could lead to silent memory corruption or a kernel bug. This patch fixes that. Also it cleans up some duplicated error handling logic from various functions in fast_commit.c file.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.10.99 (fixed in 5.10.99); from 5.11, before 5.15.22 (fixed in 5.15.22); from 5.16, before 5.16.8 (fixed in 5.16.8); version 5.17 only

Published 2024-06-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.