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Tracker / CVE-2026-46046

CVE-2026-46046

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix missing brelse() in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all() The commit c8e008b60492 ("ext4: ignore xattrs past end") introduced a refcount leak in when block_csum is false. ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all() calls ext4_get_inode_loc() to get iloc.bh, but never releases it with brelse().

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 5.10.237 → 5.10.258
linux linux_kernel · 5.15.181 → 5.15.209
linux linux_kernel · 5.4.293 → 5.5
linux linux_kernel · 6.1.135 → 6.1.175
linux linux_kernel · 6.12.24 → 6.12.86
linux linux_kernel · 6.13.12 → 6.14
linux linux_kernel · 6.14.3 → 6.18.27
linux linux_kernel · 6.19 → 7.0.4
linux linux_kernel · 6.6.88 → 6.6.140

Analysis

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