CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-31447

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.14%

3th percentile - higher than 3% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a vulnerability was found in the ext4 filesystem that causes rejection of mounting partitions with bigalloc enabled when s_first_data_block is non-zero. This configuration is unsupported and may lead to filesystem instability.

Risk Assessment

Attempting to mount an ext4 partition with bigalloc and non-zero s_first_data_block may result in filesystem instability, data loss, or unexpected kernel behavior, posing a risk to data integrity in the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update the Linux kernel to a patched version and avoid using bigalloc with non-zero s_first_data_block in ext4 filesystem configurations.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: reject mount if bigalloc with s_first_data_block != 0 bigalloc with s_first_data_block != 0 is not supported, reject mounting it.

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