CVE-2022-50749

Name	CVE-2022-50749
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: acct: fix potential integer overflow in encode_comp_t() The integer overflow is descripted with following codes: > 317 static comp_t encode_comp_t(u64 value) > 318 { > 319 int exp, rnd; ...... > 341 exp <<= MANTSIZE; > 342 exp += value; > 343 return exp; > 344 } Currently comp_t is defined as type of '__u16', but the variable 'exp' is type of 'int', so overflow would happen when variable 'exp' in line 343 is greater than 65535.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bullseye	5.10.223-1	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.247-1	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.148-1	fixed
	bookworm (security)	6.1.158-1	fixed
	trixie	6.12.57-1	fixed
	trixie (security)	6.12.48-1	fixed
	forky	6.17.12-1	fixed
	sid	6.17.13-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
linux	source	bullseye	5.10.178-1
linux	source	(unstable)	6.1.4-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/c5f31c655bcc01b6da53b836ac951c1556245305 (6.2-rc1)