# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-46046"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:57:02.610Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:20:12.134Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-46046"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46046.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46046"
title: "ext4: fix missing brelse() in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix missing brelse() in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all()\n\nThe commit c8e008b60492 (\"ext4: ignore xattrs past end\")\nintroduced a refcount leak in when block_csum is false.\n\next4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all() calls ext4_get_inode_loc() to\nget iloc.bh, but never releases it with brelse()."
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