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        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2025-10-04T15:13:33.468Z",
        "datePublished": "2025-10-04T15:16:43.093Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T19:20:24.290Z"
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                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: add EXT4_IGET_BAD flag to prevent unexpected bad inode\n\nThere are many places that will get unhappy (and crash) when ext4_iget()\nreturns a bad inode. However, if iget the boot loader inode, allows a bad\ninode to be returned, because the inode may not be initialized. This\nmechanism can be used to bypass some checks and cause panic. To solve this\nproblem, we add a special iget flag EXT4_IGET_BAD. Only with this flag\nwe'd be returning bad inode from ext4_iget(), otherwise we always return\nthe error code if the inode is bad inode.(suggested by Jan Kara)"
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