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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23423"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-03T13:24:31.966Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:06:37.271Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
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-2026-23423"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23423.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23423"
title: "btrfs: free pages on error in btrfs_uring_read_extent()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: free pages on error in btrfs_uring_read_extent()\n\nIn this function the 'pages' object is never freed in the hopes that it is\npicked up by btrfs_uring_read_finished() whenever that executes in the\nfuture. But that's just the happy path. Along the way previous\nallocations might have gone wrong, or we might not get -EIOCBQUEUED from\nbtrfs_encoded_read_regular_fill_pages(). In all these cases, we go to a\ncleanup section that frees all memory allocated by this function without\nassuming any deferred execution, and this also needs to happen for the\n'pages' allocation."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"34310c442e175f286b4c06ab5caa4e0b267ea31c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d4f210de01eaccac61eee657f676045ef9771d07"},{"version":"34310c442e175f286b4c06ab5caa4e0b267ea31c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"628895890b0c9ac9129129e89455da7db95ba343"},{"version":"34310c442e175f286b4c06ab5caa4e0b267ea31c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3f501412f2079ca14bf68a18d80a2b7a823f1f64"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.13"},{"version":"6.18.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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