CVE-2022-1304

Publication date 14 April 2022

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

An out-of-bounds read/write vulnerability was found in e2fsprogs 1.46.5. This issue leads to a segmentation fault and possibly arbitrary code execution via a specially crafted filesystem.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
e2fsprogs	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.46.5-2ubuntu1.1
	21.10 impish	Fixed 1.46.3-1ubuntu3.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.45.5-2ubuntu1.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.44.1-1ubuntu1.4
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.42.13-1ubuntu1.2+esm1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.42.9-3ubuntu1.3+esm3

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
e2fsprogs	Upstream: ?h=main

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-5464-1
e2fsprogs vulnerability
7 June 2022