# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-92494"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:10:10.073Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:04:00.500Z"
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-2026-92494"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-92494.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-92494"
title: "ext4: fix buffer_head leak in ext4_init_orphan_info"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix buffer_head leak in ext4_init_orphan_info\n\next4_init_orphan_info() reads orphan file blocks with ext4_bread()\nand stores the returned buffer_head in oi-\u003eof_binfo[i].ob_bh.\n\nIf ext4_bread() succeeds but the orphan block magic or checksum\nvalidation fails, the function jumps to out_free. However, the old\nout_free loop starts releasing buffers from i - 1, so the current\nbuffer_head at index i is skipped.\n\nThis leaks the buffer_head reference obtained by ext4_bread() on the\nbad magic and bad checksum error paths.\n\nFix this by tracking the number of successfully read buffer_heads and\nreleasing exactly those buffer_heads on the error path."
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