CVE-2021-40490

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

A race condition was discovered in ext4_write_inline_data_end in fs/ext4/inline.c in the ext4 subsystem in the Linux kernel through 5.13.13.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-40490

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-40490.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed5.10.63-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.14.6-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.46-5
debian debianforkyfixed5.14.6-1
debian debiansidfixed5.14.6-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.14.6-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.