CVE-2026-68442 (GCVE-0-2026-68442)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-12 00:07 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:05
VLAI
Title
btrfs: don't propagate EXTENT_FLAG_LOGGING to split extent maps
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: don't propagate EXTENT_FLAG_LOGGING to split extent maps When btrfs_drop_extent_map_range() splits an extent map, the new split maps inherit the original map's flags through a local 'flags' variable. Commit f86f7a75e2fb ("btrfs: use the flags of an extent map to identify the compression type") changed the EXTENT_FLAG_LOGGING clearing to operate on em->flags instead of that local 'flags' copy, so a split of an extent map that is currently being logged wrongly inherits EXTENT_FLAG_LOGGING. The flag is then never cleared on the split, and when it is freed while still on the inode's modified_extents list (for example by the extent map shrinker) it trips the WARN_ON(!list_empty(&em->list)) in btrfs_free_extent_map() and leads to a use-after-free. Clear EXTENT_FLAG_LOGGING from the local 'flags' copy used for the splits and only clear EXTENT_FLAG_PINNED from em->flags, restoring the behaviour prior to f86f7a75e2fb.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: f86f7a75e2fb5fd7d31d00eab8a392f97ba42ce9 , < 2a9246a424f45f33a1b8367052611ebe874868ad (git)
Affected: f86f7a75e2fb5fd7d31d00eab8a392f97ba42ce9 , < 9304713b70e7e1450e3a76e758836fe5391bfa95 (git)
Affected: f86f7a75e2fb5fd7d31d00eab8a392f97ba42ce9 , < 0e465c63f103a5ce6849614d6bda048d70eebec8 (git)
Affected: f86f7a75e2fb5fd7d31d00eab8a392f97ba42ce9 , < 5eff4d5b17fa1950e80bfd1ba43dc0699e61a644 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.101 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.42 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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