{"id":"AZL-70091","summary":"CVE-2025-40190 affecting package kernel for versions less than 6.6.117.1-1","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: guard against EA inode refcount underflow in xattr update\n\nsyzkaller found a path where ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref() reads an EA\ninode refcount that is already \u003c= 0 and then applies ref_change (often\n-1). That lets the refcount underflow and we proceed with a bogus value,\ntriggering errors like:\n\n  EXT4-fs error: EA inode \u003cn\u003e ref underflow: ref_count=-1 ref_change=-1\n  EXT4-fs warning: ea_inode dec ref err=-117\n\nMake the invariant explicit: if the current refcount is non-positive,\ntreat this as on-disk corruption, emit ext4_error_inode(), and fail the\noperation with -EFSCORRUPTED instead of updating the refcount. Delete the\nWARN_ONCE() as negative refcounts are now impossible; keep error reporting\nin ext4_error_inode().\n\nThis prevents the underflow and the follow-on orphan/cleanup churn.","modified":"2026-04-01T05:21:41.505914Z","published":"2025-11-12T22:15:45Z","upstream":["CVE-2025-40190"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40190"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"kernel","ecosystem":"Azure Linux:3","purl":"pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.6.117.1-1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-70091.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}