CVE-2022-49831

kernel: btrfs: zoned: initialize device's zone info for seeding

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · May 1, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: zoned: initialize device's zone info for seeding

When performing seeding on a zoned filesystem it is necessary to initialize each zoned device's btrfs_zoned_device_info structure, otherwise mounting the filesystem will cause a NULL pointer dereference.

This was uncovered by fstests' testcase btrfs/163.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation