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High severity Unreviewed Published Oct 7, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 4, 2026

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

ext4: fix uninititialized value in 'ext4_evict_inode'

Syzbot found the following issue:

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ext4_evict_inode+0xdd/0x26b0 fs/ext4/inode.c:180
ext4_evict_inode+0xdd/0x26b0 fs/ext4/inode.c:180
evict+0x365/0x9a0 fs/inode.c:664
iput_final fs/inode.c:1747 [inline]
iput+0x985/0xdd0 fs/inode.c:1773
__ext4_new_inode+0xe54/0x7ec0 fs/ext4/ialloc.c:1361
ext4_mknod+0x376/0x840 fs/ext4/namei.c:2844
vfs_mknod+0x79d/0x830 fs/namei.c:3914
do_mknodat+0x47d/0xaa0
__do_sys_mknodat fs/namei.c:3992 [inline]
__se_sys_mknodat fs/namei.c:3989 [inline]
__ia32_sys_mknodat+0xeb/0x150 fs/namei.c:3989
do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/common.c:112 [inline]
__do_fast_syscall_32+0xa2/0x100 arch/x86/entry/common.c:178
do_fast_syscall_32+0x33/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:203
do_SYSENTER_32+0x1b/0x20 arch/x86/entry/common.c:246
entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x70/0x82

Uninit was created at:
__alloc_pages+0x9f1/0xe80 mm/page_alloc.c:5578
alloc_pages+0xaae/0xd80 mm/mempolicy.c:2285
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:1794 [inline]
allocate_slab+0x1b5/0x1010 mm/slub.c:1939
new_slab mm/slub.c:1992 [inline]
___slab_alloc+0x10c3/0x2d60 mm/slub.c:3180
__slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3279 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3364 [inline]
slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3406 [inline]
__kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3413 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_lru+0x6f3/0xb30 mm/slub.c:3429
alloc_inode_sb include/linux/fs.h:3117 [inline]
ext4_alloc_inode+0x5f/0x860 fs/ext4/super.c:1321
alloc_inode+0x83/0x440 fs/inode.c:259
new_inode_pseudo fs/inode.c:1018 [inline]
new_inode+0x3b/0x430 fs/inode.c:1046
__ext4_new_inode+0x2a7/0x7ec0 fs/ext4/ialloc.c:959
ext4_mkdir+0x4d5/0x1560 fs/ext4/namei.c:2992
vfs_mkdir+0x62a/0x870 fs/namei.c:4035
do_mkdirat+0x466/0x7b0 fs/namei.c:4060
__do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4075 [inline]
__se_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4073 [inline]
__ia32_sys_mkdirat+0xc4/0x120 fs/namei.c:4073
do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/common.c:112 [inline]
__do_fast_syscall_32+0xa2/0x100 arch/x86/entry/common.c:178
do_fast_syscall_32+0x33/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:203
do_SYSENTER_32+0x1b/0x20 arch/x86/entry/common.c:246
entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x70/0x82

CPU: 1 PID: 4625 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc4-syzkaller-62821-gcb231e2f67ec #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022

Now, 'ext4_alloc_inode()' didn't init 'ei->i_flags'. If new inode failed
before set 'ei->i_flags' in '__ext4_new_inode()', then do 'iput()'. As after
6bc0d63dad7f commit will access 'ei->i_flags' in 'ext4_evict_inode()' which
will lead to access uninit-value.
To solve above issue just init 'ei->i_flags' in 'ext4_alloc_inode()'.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 7, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 7, 2025
Last updated Feb 4, 2026

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(4th percentile)

Weaknesses

Use of Uninitialized Resource

The product uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2022-50546

GHSA ID

GHSA-g2jp-ch4j-rcfr

Source code

No known source code

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