CVE-2022-49414

A race condition vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. This flaw occurs specifically between the ext4_write and ext4_convert_inline_data functions, resulting in inconsistencies in filesystem metadata, potentially causing a kernel panic and a denial of service.

To successfully exploit this bug, the attacker needs to control the write to the filesystems. Other than having existing root privileges, this is impossible to exploit.

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