CVE-2022-50622

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. This vulnerability occurs due to improper handling of memory allocation failures when the krealloc function returns NULL within ext4_fc_record_modified_inode(). A local user could potentially exploit this flaw, leading to a memory leak. This memory leak can ultimately result in a Denial of Service (DoS) condition on the affected system.

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