ext4 vulnerability

  1. CVE-2026-31448 ext4 Infinite Loop: Extent/Xattr Bug and Patch Guidance

    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...
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