CVE-2025-68264 — Linux vulnerability
40 documents8 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHOSV
OSV7.2
No vectorEPSS
0.1%
top 79.07%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 16
Latest updateApr 17
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: refresh inline data size before write operations
The cached ei->i_inline_size can become stale between the initial size
check and when ext4_update_inline_data()/ext4_create_inline_data() use
it. Although ext4_get_max_inline_size() reads the correct value at the
time of the check, concurrent xattr operations can modify i_inline_size
before ext4_write_lock_xattr() is acquired.
This causes ext4_update_inline_data() and ext…