Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2025-40190

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: guard against EA inode refcount underflow in xattr update syzkaller found a path where ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref() reads an EA inode refcount that is already <=…

EPSS: 0.002 (8.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Linux — versions 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, 6.1.157, 5.4.301

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