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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74728"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:33:18.412Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:46:17.289Z"
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-2026-74728"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74728.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74728"
title: "xfs: handle NULL b_addr in xfs_buf_free"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfs: handle NULL b_addr in xfs_buf_free\n\nWhen xfs_buf_alloc_backing_mem() fails, xfs_buf_free() is called with\nbp-\u003eb_addr still NULL.  The code falls through to the folio_put path\nwhich calls virt_to_folio(NULL), dereferencing an invalid address and\ncausing a kernel crash.\n\n Call Trace:\n  xfs_buf_free+0x25f/0x510\n  xfs_buf_alloc+0xc98/0x19b0\n  xfs_buf_find_insert+0x55/0x14d0\n  xfs_buf_get_map+0x122b/0x17c0\n  xfbtree_init_leaf_block+0x11c/0x4a0\n  xfbtree_init+0x1bb/0x460\n  xrep_rmap_setup_scan+0x100/0x1f0\n  xrep_rmapbt+0x41/0xc0\n\nFix this by skipping folio_put() when bp-\u003eb_addr is NULL."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5076a6040ca1613e616d84aecfaac5f932db84e0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"444ff50ece93060131ad84fbd3f378723d8ac243"},{"version":"5076a6040ca1613e616d84aecfaac5f932db84e0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ccf6738adcafa5ddbddc4e71b45d8a51b86643c7"},{"version":"5076a6040ca1613e616d84aecfaac5f932db84e0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3aa0c1d23ee1b9d9b340fb2f4736536e1408d706"},{"version":"5076a6040ca1613e616d84aecfaac5f932db84e0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d852729c5f4f830fbe7413df032e29459b3daf83"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.45","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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