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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89601"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:45:04.667Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:47:58.893Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-89601"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89601.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89601"
title: "ext2: Fix lost inode updates for IS_SYNC inodes"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next2: Fix lost inode updates for IS_SYNC inodes\n\next2_setsize() and ext2_xattr_set2() had a construct like:\n\n\tif (IS_SYNC(inode)) {\n\t\tsync_inode_metadata(inode, 1);\n\t} else {\n\t\tmark_inode_dirty(inode);\n\t}\n\nwhich leads to lost inode updates for IS_SYNC inodes because\nsync_inode_metadata() does anything only if the inode is already dirty\nand hence inode updates may be simply lost. Fix the problem by\nunconditionally marking the inode dirty and *then* call\nsync_inode_metadata()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b879565effd88fc119c2efea3f3868a9997ed9ba"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e54de654423bee98d1ba50379b09daf97c7854a6"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5481766125041e71662f2e32ee0e91ad5f4d07f4"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5efb3350230fef831167740e69e6db2861101186"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"356984d1a5c32e94810cbb6c8dc7d8ff2d4d919a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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