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CVE-2026-100073

Linux: ext4: fix transaction overflow during writeback

Linux LinuxOperating systems
CVSS
NoneNot scored
ExploitationNo known exploitationNot in CISA KEV, which does not prove it is unexploitedCISA KEV
Exploit odds (EPSS)0.10%Chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, higher than 0% of CVEs. Scored 23 Oct 2026FIRST EPSS
Fixed in46e8e31771f4f1c5e1cdec37a889a6730e42e9f1Also 6.17CVE List
Published25 Sep 2026Updated 19 Oct 2026CVE List

What fixes it

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: fix transaction overflow during writeback

Commit 95ad8ee45cdb ("ext4: correct the reserved credits for extent conversion") was correct to note that we need to reserve enough credits for all extents possibly underlying a large folio. However it was too eager to reduce the number of reserved credits. Extent conversion may not only need to touch several leaf extent blocks, it may also need to split extents - for example a single large unwritten extent may need to be split into many small written ones in case of sparse folio dirtying. This can thus result not only in extent leaf modifications but also in a need to allocate new extent tree nodes. As a result the reserved transaction credits were not sufficient in some corner cases. Use ext4_meta_trans_blocks() for correct upper bound credit estimate.

Text from CVE List

Affected versions 8

  • Linuxaffected: 95ad8ee45cdbc321c135a2db895d48b374ef0f87 before a22464c5df5827e884a5a7d3d8fb03870e5bb6c8CVE List
  • Linuxaffected: 95ad8ee45cdbc321c135a2db895d48b374ef0f87 before 46e8e31771f4f1c5e1cdec37a889a6730e42e9f1CVE List
  • Linuxaffected: 2b6d39229bc783198222cddd31e2fbded93c8db7CVE List
  • Linuxaffected: 6.16.3 before 6.17CVE List
  • Linuxaffected: 6.17CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: all versions before 6.17CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 7.2.6 through 7.2.*CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 7.3CVE List

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