Bug 2266484 (CVE-2021-46946) - CVE-2021-46946 kernel: ext4: fix check to prevent false positive report of incorrect used inodes
Summary: CVE-2021-46946 kernel: ext4: fix check to prevent false positive report of in...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2021-46946
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Product Security
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Depends On: 2266485
Blocks: 2266459
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Reported: 2024-02-27 23:05 UTC by Nick Tait
Modified: 2024-04-16 17:36 UTC (History)
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Description Nick Tait 2024-02-27 23:05:12 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: fix check to prevent false positive report of incorrect used inodes

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2021-46946 to this issue.

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/20240227184057.2368370-11-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org/T/#u
Comment 1 Nick Tait 2024-02-27 23:05:48 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2266485]
Comment 8 Justin M. Forbes 2024-02-28 19:08:22 UTC 
This was fixed for Fedora with the 5.12.3 stable kernel update.
Comment 9 Eric Sandeen 2024-03-08 13:31:33 UTC 
Just a note, this was rejected as a CVE upstream:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024030823-REJECTED-ea48@gregkh/T/#u
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