CVE-2021-46945
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-27 18:40
Modified
2024-11-04 11:56
Severity ?
Summary
ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e9ea8f4637026b8e965128953f2da061ccae9c4Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64e1eebe2131183174f4fbb6b1491355f96c6cdePatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac2f7ca51b0929461ea49918f27c11b680f28995Patch
Impacted products
LinuxLinux
LinuxLinux
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