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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74722" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:33:14.582Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-22T15:33:14.582Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z" 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-2026-74722" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74722.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74722" title: "btrfs: fix memory leak in btrfs_do_encoded_write()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: fix memory leak in btrfs_do_encoded_write()\n\nLocal fuzzing of 6.12.94 has found the following memory leak:\n\nUnreferenced object 0xffff888018050a80 (size 64):\n comm \"syz.0.17\", pid 10297, jiffies 4294953601\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n 10 0a 05 18 80 88 ff ff 10 0a 05 18 80 88 ff ff ................\n backtrace (crc a8a6fc29):\n kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:42 [inline]\n slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4152 [inline]\n slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4197 [inline]\n __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x168/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:4358\n kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:878 [inline]\n extent_changeset_alloc fs/btrfs/extent_io.h:207 [inline]\n qgroup_reserve_data+0x1c5/0x7d0 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:4305\n btrfs_qgroup_reserve_data+0x2e/0xb0 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:4355\n btrfs_do_encoded_write+0x92e/0x1040 fs/btrfs/inode.c:9746\n btrfs_encoded_write fs/btrfs/file.c:1482 [inline]\n btrfs_do_write_iter+0x280/0x610 fs/btrfs/file.c:1507\n btrfs_ioctl_encoded_write+0x3d6/0x490 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:4738\n btrfs_ioctl+0x6f9/0xc90 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:-1\n vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]\n __se_sys_ioctl+0xf9/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:892\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:47 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xbe/0x1a0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:78\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nUnreferenced object 0xffff888018050a00 (size 64):\n comm \"syz.0.17\", pid 10297, jiffies 4294953601\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 0f 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n 90 0a 05 18 80 88 ff ff 90 0a 05 18 80 88 ff ff ................\n backtrace (crc cb5c9580):\n kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:42 [inline]\n slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4152 [inline]\n slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4197 [inline]\n __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x168/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:4358\n kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:878 [inline]\n kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1014 [inline]\n ulist_prealloc+0x9c/0x110 fs/btrfs/ulist.c:114\n extent_changeset_prealloc fs/btrfs/extent_io.h:217 [inline]\n __set_extent_bit+0x16b/0x1a70 fs/btrfs/extent-io-tree.c:1086\n set_record_extent_bits+0x50/0x90 fs/btrfs/extent-io-tree.c:1821\n qgroup_reserve_data+0x274/0x7d0 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:4312\n btrfs_qgroup_reserve_data+0x2e/0xb0 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:4355\n btrfs_do_encoded_write+0x92e/0x1040 fs/btrfs/inode.c:9746\n btrfs_encoded_write fs/btrfs/file.c:1482 [inline]\n btrfs_do_write_iter+0x280/0x610 fs/btrfs/file.c:1507\n btrfs_ioctl_encoded_write+0x3d6/0x490 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:4738\n btrfs_ioctl+0x6f9/0xc90 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:-1\n vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]\n __se_sys_ioctl+0xf9/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:892\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:47 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xbe/0x1a0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:78\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nFix this by freeing an extent changeset before returning from\nbtrfs_do_encoded_write()." affected: 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