CVE-2026-23423 in Kernel
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: free pages on error in btrfs_uring_read_extent()
In this function the 'pages' object is never freed in the hopes that it is
picked up by btrfs_uring_read_finished() whenever that executes in the
future. But that's just the happy path. Along the way previous
allocations might have gone wrong, or we might not get -EIOCBQUEUED from
btrfs_encoded_read_regular_fill_pages(). In all these cases, we go to a
cleanup section that frees all memory allocated by this function without
assuming any deferred execution, and this also needs to happen for the
'pages' allocation.
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Responsible
Linux
Reservation
01/13/2026
Disclosure
04/03/2026
Status
Confirmed
Entries
VulDB provides additional information and datapoints for this CVE:
| ID | Vulnerability | CWE | Exp | Cou | CVE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 355096 | Linux Kernel btrfs btrfs_uring_read_extent allocation of resources | 770 | Not defined | Official fix | CVE-2026-23423 |