cve-2026-31451

The newly published CVE-2026-31451 is a classic example of why kernel bug fixes matter even when the flaw is framed as a “proper error handling” change rather than a dramatic exploit primitive. In the Linux ext4 filesystem, an unchecked inline-data condition could trigger a BUG_ON in...

In the Linux kernel’s ext4 filesystem, a small logic change has been turned into a security-relevant reliability fix: the code path that reads inline data now avoids a kernel-panic-style BUG_ON() when the inline payload is larger than a page. Instead of crashing the system, the kernel now logs...