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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] 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() call

[NVD] 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() call

lownvdPublished 2026-05-27

CVE-2026-46046 CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM Published: 2026-05-27T14:17:24.083

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 rel

Indicators of compromise

CVE-2026-46046cve

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46046