# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-39276"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-06-25T14:22:38.886Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:49:57.161Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-39276"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-39276.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-39276"
title: "ext4: fix mb_cache_entry's e_refcnt leak in ext4_xattr_block_cache_find()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix mb_cache_entry's e_refcnt leak in ext4_xattr_block_cache_find()\n\nSyzbot reports a warning as follows:\n\n============================================\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5075 at fs/mbcache.c:419 mb_cache_destroy+0x224/0x290\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 0 PID: 5075 Comm: syz-executor199 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc6-gb947cc5bf6d7\nRIP: 0010:mb_cache_destroy+0x224/0x290 fs/mbcache.c:419\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ext4_put_super+0x6d4/0xcd0 fs/ext4/super.c:1375\n generic_shutdown_super+0x136/0x2d0 fs/super.c:641\n kill_block_super+0x44/0x90 fs/super.c:1675\n ext4_kill_sb+0x68/0xa0 fs/ext4/super.c:7327\n[...]\n============================================\n\nThis is because when finding an entry in ext4_xattr_block_cache_find(), if\next4_sb_bread() returns -ENOMEM, the ce's e_refcnt, which has already grown\nin the __entry_find(), won't be put away, and eventually trigger the above\nissue in mb_cache_destroy() due to reference count leakage.\n\nSo call mb_cache_entry_put() on the -ENOMEM error branch as a quick fix."
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