In the Linux kernel’s ext4 filesystem, a newly published vulnerability, CVE-2026-31448, exposes a failure path that can leave the filesystem spinning in an infinite loop while holding critical locks. The issue is tied to how ext4 handles extent-tree insertion failures during mkdir and mknod, and...
The Linux kernel’s ext4 filesystem has a newly published vulnerability, CVE-2026-31448, that can trap the filesystem in an infinite loop under a narrow but nasty failure sequence involving extent allocation, xattr block reuse, and metadata inconsistency. NVD published the record on April 22...