Quota bypass via 32-bit reservation counter overflow
Published Feb 26, 2025 · Updated Aug 5, 2026
Integer overflow in Btrfs qgroup reservation in Linux allows remote authenticated users to bypass configured storage quotas. The qgroup_reserve_data() path stores extent_changeset->bytes_changed as a 32-bit unsigned integer, so a fallocate range larger than 4 GiB wraps the reservation count and reserves too few bytes. A writable Btrfs volume with qgroups enabled is required; the bypass permits allocations beyond the assigned limit and can exhaust shared space.
Summary
What happened
Integer overflow in Btrfs qgroup reservation in Linux allows remote authenticated users to bypass configured storage quotas. The qgroup_reserve_data() path stores extent_changeset->bytes_changed as a 32-bit unsigned integer, so a fallocate range larger than 4 GiB wraps the reservation count and reserves too few bytes. A writable Btrfs volume with qgroups enabled is required; the bypass permits allocations beyond the assigned limit and can exhaust shared space.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-49075
- Published
- Feb 26, 2025
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-190, T1499
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Feb 26, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 5, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=4.13
- Affected versionversion=7bc329c1836866ffac8b2613f780a51b3ffe786d <0355387ea5b02d353c9415613fab908fac5c52a6
- Affected versionversion=7bc329c1836866ffac8b2613f780a51b3ffe786d <44277c50fdba5019ca25bfad1b71e2561b0de11b
- Affected versionversion=7bc329c1836866ffac8b2613f780a51b3ffe786d <4b98799e181b4326a613108cf37acc1f55d21b45
- Affected versionversion=7bc329c1836866ffac8b2613f780a51b3ffe786d <6bfff81286d4491f02dad7814bae5c77c9ad2320
- Affected versionversion=7bc329c1836866ffac8b2613f780a51b3ffe786d <7941b74ed49b6db25efbef2256ebef843c11a010
- Affected versionversion=7bc329c1836866ffac8b2613f780a51b3ffe786d <82ae73ac963cee877ce34f7c31b2b456b516e96c
- Affected versionversion=7bc329c1836866ffac8b2613f780a51b3ffe786d <b642b52d0b50f4d398cb4293f64992d0eed2e2ce
- Affected versionversion=7bc329c1836866ffac8b2613f780a51b3ffe786d <f3d97b22a708bf9e3f3ac2ba232bcefd0b0c136b
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