CVE-2022-50336 fs/ntfs3: Add null pointer check to attr_load_runs_vcn
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fs/ntfs3: Add null pointer check to attr_load_runs_vcn

Some metadata files are handled before MFT. This adds a null pointer
check for some corner cases that could lead to NPD while reading these
metadata files for a malformed NTFS image.

[  240.190827] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000158
[  240.191583] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[  240.191956] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[  240.192391] PGD 0 P4D 0
[  240.192897] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
[  240.193805] CPU: 0 PID: 242 Comm: mount Tainted: G    B             5.19.0+ #17
[  240.194477] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[  240.195152] RIP: 0010:ni_find_attr+0xae/0x300
[  240.195679] Code: c8 48 c7 45 88 c0 4e 5e 86 c7 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 c7 40 04 00 f3 f3 f3 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 45 d0 31 c0 e8 e2 d9f
[  240.196642] RSP: 0018:ffff88800812f690 EFLAGS: 00000286
[  240.197019] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff85ef037a
[  240.197523] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffff88e95f60
[  240.197877] RBP: ffff88800812f738 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: fffffbfff11d2bed
[  240.198292] R10: ffffffff88e95f67 R11: fffffbfff11d2bec R12: 0000000000000000
[  240.198647] R13: 0000000000000080 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[  240.199410] FS:  00007f233c33be40(0000) GS:ffff888058200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  240.199895] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  240.200314] CR2: 0000000000000158 CR3: 0000000004d32000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[  240.200839] Call Trace:
[  240.201104]  <TASK>
[  240.201502]  ? ni_load_mi+0x80/0x80
[  240.202297]  ? ___slab_alloc+0x465/0x830
[  240.202614]  attr_load_runs_vcn+0x8c/0x1a0
[  240.202886]  ? __kasan_slab_alloc+0x32/0x90
[  240.203157]  ? attr_data_write_resident+0x250/0x250
[  240.203543]  mi_read+0x133/0x2c0
[  240.203785]  mi_get+0x70/0x140
[  240.204012]  ni_load_mi_ex+0xfa/0x190
[  240.204346]  ? ni_std5+0x90/0x90
[  240.204588]  ? __kasan_kmalloc+0x88/0xb0
[  240.204859]  ni_enum_attr_ex+0xf1/0x1c0
[  240.205107]  ? ni_fname_type.part.0+0xd0/0xd0
[  240.205600]  ? ntfs_load_attr_list+0xbe/0x300
[  240.205864]  ? ntfs_cmp_names_cpu+0x125/0x180
[  240.206157]  ntfs_iget5+0x56c/0x1870
[  240.206510]  ? ntfs_get_block_bmap+0x70/0x70
[  240.206776]  ? __kasan_kmalloc+0x88/0xb0
[  240.207030]  ? set_blocksize+0x95/0x150
[  240.207545]  ntfs_fill_super+0xb8f/0x1e20
[  240.207839]  ? put_ntfs+0x1d0/0x1d0
[  240.208069]  ? vsprintf+0x20/0x20
[  240.208467]  ? mutex_unlock+0x81/0xd0
[  240.208846]  ? set_blocksize+0x95/0x150
[  240.209221]  get_tree_bdev+0x232/0x370
[  240.209804]  ? put_ntfs+0x1d0/0x1d0
[  240.210519]  ntfs_fs_get_tree+0x15/0x20
[  240.210991]  vfs_get_tree+0x4c/0x130
[  240.211455]  path_mount+0x645/0xfd0
[  240.211806]  ? putname+0x80/0xa0
[  240.212112]  ? finish_automount+0x2e0/0x2e0
[  240.212559]  ? kmem_cache_free+0x110/0x390
[  240.212906]  ? putname+0x80/0xa0
[  240.213329]  do_mount+0xd6/0xf0
[  240.213829]  ? path_mount+0xfd0/0xfd0
[  240.214246]  ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x20
[  240.214774]  __x64_sys_mount+0xca/0x110
[  240.215080]  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[  240.215442]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
[  240.215811] RIP: 0033:0x7f233b4e948a
[  240.216104] 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
[  240.217615] RSP: 002b:00007fff02211ec8 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
[  240.218718] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000561cdc35b060 RCX: 00007f233b4e948a
[  240.219556] RDX: 0000561cdc35b260 RSI: 0000561cdc35b2e0 RDI: 0000561cdc363af0
[  240.219975] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000561cdc35b280 R09: 0000000000000020
[  240.220403] R10: 00000000c0ed0000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000561cdc363af0
[  240.220803] R13: 000
---truncated---
Affected products: vendor: Linux
product: Linux
default_status: unaffected
vendor: Linux
product: Linux
default_status: affected
Published: 2025-09-15T14:49:51.195Z