CVE-2022-49831btrfs: zoned: initialize device's zone info for seeding
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.20%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 90% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: zoned: initialize device's zone info for seeding When performing seeding on a zoned filesystem it is necessary to initialize each zoned device's btrfs_zoned_device_info structure, otherwise mounting the filesystem will cause a NULL pointer dereference. This was uncovered by fstests' testcase btrfs/163.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
Published
- 13 months later
· 13 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.20% · top 90% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected 7365104236ade0bf22edd7724c8fd438b0342ee4 – < 91c38504e589dadbcde47b1cacdfc5b684154d44
- affected 7365104236ade0bf22edd7724c8fd438b0342ee4 – < 544f38a738343d7e75f104e5e9d1ade58d8b71bd
- affected 7365104236ade0bf22edd7724c8fd438b0342ee4 – < a8d1b1647bf8244a5f270538e9e636e2657fffa3
- affected 5.12
- unaffected < 5.12
- unaffected 5.15.79 – ≤ 5.15.*
- unaffected 6.0.9 – ≤ 6.0.*
- unaffected 6.1 – ≤ *
References
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-12944 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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