Threats tagged 'ghsa-497m-9xj2-rmhf'

CVE-2024-53690 is a medium-severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel's nilfs2 filesystem. It involves the use of a deleted inode due to inode bitmap corruption, which causes inode duplication and an underflow of the inode link count (i_nlink) during directory removal operations. This can trigger warnings and potentially disrupt filesystem operations. The issue is addressed by checking the inode link count in nilfs_iget() and reclaiming deleted inodes properly.