fs/ntfs3: Validate BOOT record_size

published 2025-09-15 13 mo ago modified 2026-08-15 2 mo ago also EUVD-2022-55593

cvss: 5.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 5%
public exploits: 0; none known

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

When the NTFS BOOT record_size field < 0, it represents a shift value. However, there is no sanity check on the shift result and the sbi->record_bits calculation through blksize_bits() assumes the size always > 256, which could lead to NPD while mounting a malformed NTFS image.

[ 318.675159] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000158 [ 318.675682] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 318.675869] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 318.676246] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 318.676502] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [ 318.676934] CPU: 0 PID: 259 Comm: mount Not tainted 5.19.0 #5 [ 318.677289] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 318.678136] RIP: 0010:ni_find_attr+0x2d/0x1c0 [ 318.678656] Code: 89 ca 4d 89 c7 41 56 41 55 41 54 41 89 cc 55 48 89 fd 53 48 89 d3 48 83 ec 20 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 44 24 180 [ 318.679848] RSP: 0018:ffffa6c8c0297bd8 EFLAGS: 00000246 [ 318.680104] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000080 [ 318.680790] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 318.681679] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 318.682577] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000005 R12: 0000000000000080 [ 318.683015] R13: ffff8d5582e68400 R14: 0000000000000100 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 318.683618] FS: 00007fd9e1c81e40(0000) GS:ffff8d55fdc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 318.684280] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 318.684651] CR2: 0000000000000158 CR3: 0000000002e1a000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 [ 318.685623] Call Trace: [ 318.686607] <TASK> [ 318.686872] ? ntfs_alloc_inode+0x1a/0x60 [ 318.687235] attr_load_runs_vcn+0x2b/0xa0 [ 318.687468] mi_read+0xbb/0x250 [ 318.687576] ntfs_iget5+0x114/0xd90 [ 318.687750] ntfs_fill_super+0x588/0x11b0 [ 318.687953] ? put_ntfs+0x130/0x130 [ 318.688065] ? snprintf+0x49/0x70 [ 318.688164] ? put_ntfs+0x130/0x130 [ 318.688256] get_tree_bdev+0x16a/0x260 [ 318.688407] vfs_get_tree+0x20/0xb0 [ 318.688519] path_mount+0x2dc/0x9b0 [ 318.688877] do_mount+0x74/0x90 [ 318.689142] __x64_sys_mount+0x89/0xd0 [ 318.689636] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [ 318.689998] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd [ 318.690318] RIP: 0033:0x7fd9e133c48a [ 318.690687] Code: 48 8b 0d 11 fa 2a 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 49 89 ca b8 a5 00 00 008 [ 318.691357] RSP: 002b:00007ffd374406c8 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5 [ 318.691632] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000564d0b051080 RCX: 00007fd9e133c48a [ 318.691920] RDX: 0000564d0b051280 RSI: 0000564d0b051300 RDI: 0000564d0b0596a0 [ 318.692123] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000564d0b0512a0 R09: 0000000000000020 [ 318.692349] R10: 00000000c0ed0000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000564d0b0596a0 [ 318.692673] R13: 0000564d0b051280 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00000000ffffffff [ 318.693007] </TASK> [ 318.693271] Modules linked in: [ 318.693614] CR2: 0000000000000158 [ 318.694446] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [ 318.694779] RIP: 0010:ni_find_attr+0x2d/0x1c0 [ 318.694952] Code: 89 ca 4d 89 c7 41 56 41 55 41 54 41 89 cc 55 48 89 fd 53 48 89 d3 48 83 ec 20 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 44 24 180 [ 318.696042] RSP: 0018:ffffa6c8c0297bd8 EFLAGS: 00000246 [ 318.696531] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000080 [ 318.698114] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 318.699286] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 318.699795] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000005 R12: 0000000000000080 [ 318.700236] R13: ffff8d5582e68400 R14: 0000000000000100 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 318.700973] FS: 00007fd9e1c81e40(0000) GS:ffff8d55fdc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ ---truncated---

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 2 links 4

Linux Linux 5.15.87, 6.0.17, 6.1.3, 6.2

debian ubuntu

linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 6.1.4-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50262

linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-69.76
linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1033.37
linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1031.38
linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1030.35
linux-ibm Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1027.30
linux-kvm Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1030.35
linux-azure Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1035.42
linux-gkeop Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1017.22

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50262

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-50262 updated 2026-11-07

kernel: fs/ntfs3: Validate BOOT record_size

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Technology feeds

Linux kernel rss critical rss

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-50262
NVD CVE-2022-50262

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Summary