CVE-2026-46002

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext2: reject inodes with zero inlink and valid mode in ext2iget ext2iget already rejects inodes with inlink == 0 when imode is zero or idtime is set, treating them as deleted. However, the case of inlink == 0 with a non-zero mode...

CVE-2026-46002 ext2: reject inodes with zero i_nlink and valid mode in ext2_iget()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext2: reject inodes with zero inlink and valid mode in ext2iget ext2iget already rejects inodes with inlink == 0 when imode is zero or idtime is set, treating them as deleted. However, the case of inlink == 0 with a non-zero mode...

CVE-2026-46002

Summary (CVE-2026-46002) The Linux kernel ext2 inode handling is fixed to catch a corner case where an inode with i_nlink == 0 and a non-zero i_mode could slip through if i_dtime is 0, allowing a crafted image to trigger WARN_ON in drop_nlink() via ext2_unlink/rename/rmdir. The patch extends the ...