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CVE-2022-48425

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-03-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-763

Description

In the Linux kernel through 6.2.7, fs/ntfs3/inode.c has an invalid kfree because it does not validate MFT flags before replaying logs.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: from 5.15 before 5.15.113; from 5.16 before 6.1.33; from 6.2 before 6.3.4 — fixed in 5.15.113, 6.1.33, 6.3.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.15.113, 6.1.33, 6.3.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=467333af2f7b95eeaa61a5b5369a80063cd971fd
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/fs/ntfs3?id=467333af2f7b95eeaa61a5b5369a80063cd971fd
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230413-0006/
• https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=467333af2f7b95eeaa61a5b5369a80063cd971fd
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/fs/ntfs3?id=467333af2f7b95eeaa61a5b5369a80063cd971fd
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230413-0006/

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