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 ext4xattrinodeupdateref reads an EA inode refcount that is already ref underflow: refcount=-1 refchange=-1 EXT4-fs warning: eainode dec...

Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system of the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel that stems from a potential deadlock issue in the ext4 file system when creating an EA inode...