# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31449"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-22T13:53:44.777Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:35:48.867Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
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-2026-31449"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31449.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31449"
title: "ext4: validate p_idx bounds in ext4_ext_correct_indexes"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: validate p_idx bounds in ext4_ext_correct_indexes\n\next4_ext_correct_indexes() walks up the extent tree correcting\nindex entries when the first extent in a leaf is modified. Before\naccessing path[k].p_idx-\u003eei_block, there is no validation that\np_idx falls within the valid range of index entries for that\nlevel.\n\nIf the on-disk extent header contains a corrupted or crafted\neh_entries value, p_idx can point past the end of the allocated\nbuffer, causing a slab-out-of-bounds read.\n\nFix this by validating path[k].p_idx against EXT_LAST_INDEX() at\nboth access sites: before the while loop and inside it. Return\n-EFSCORRUPTED if the index pointer is out of range, consistent\nwith how other bounds violations are handled in the ext4 extent\ntree code."
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