CVE-2024-47701 ext4: avoid OOB when system.data xattr changes underneath the filesystem

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: avoid OOB when system.data xattr changes underneath the filesystem When looking up for an entry in an inlined directory, if evalueoffs is changed underneath the filesystem by some change in the block device, it will lead to...

Linux Kernel 4.16.11 - ext4_read_inline_data() Memory Corruption

Linux Kernel 4.16.11 - ext4readinlinedata Memory Corruption ext4 can store data for small regular files as "inline data", meaning that the data is stored inside the corresponding inode instead of in separate blocks. Inline data is stored in two places: The first 60 bytes go in the iblock field in...