CVE-2022-50815: Linux

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext2: Add sanity checks for group and filesystem size Add sanity check that filesystem size does not exceed the underlying device size and that group size is big enough so that metadata can fit into it. This avoid trying to mount some crafted filesystems with extremely large group counts.

Affected products

• Linux Linux: from 2.6.12, before 5.19.17 (fixed in 5.19.17); from 5.20, before 6.0.3 (fixed in 6.0.3)

Published 2025-12-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.