FKIE_CVE-2022-50465

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-10-01 12:15 - Updated: 2026-01-16 19:15
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix leaking uninitialized memory in fast-commit journal When space at the end of fast-commit journal blocks is unused, make sure to zero it out so that uninitialized memory is not leaked to disk.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/594bc43b410316d70bb42aeff168837888d96810Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c1fb65e8ce85c281d2cba9c236f9edbbc4eaca6Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/871800770d7f2f952c7249ad52485c3564dab44ePatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8b7922374b00a44137e5bcdd46ef86c8b065f27Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9ba03eb03dc2dccb5450de388ea46bdcaaf8348Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
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