xattr

A small but consequential fix landed in the stable Linux kernel this week to resolve CVE-2025-40306, an OrangeFS xattr-related bug that could lead to kernel oopses, hung processes and an accumulating kernel memory leak under repeated module activity — operators should treat this as a prioritized...

A small but important defensive change landed in the Linux kernel this November to close CVE-2025-40190, an ext4 robustness bug that could let an EA (extended-attribute) inode’s reference count underflow during xattr updates and trigger filesystem errors, orphan churn, and potential...