# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-90262"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:07:59.435Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:00:38.640Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-90262"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90262.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90262"
title: "btrfs: retry verity reads for not-uptodate Merkle folios"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: retry verity reads for not-uptodate Merkle folios\n\nbtrfs_read_merkle_tree_page() can find a folio in the mapping that is not\nuptodate.  After taking the folio lock, the current code treats that state\nas a read error and returns -EIO.\n\nThat can make a previous transient read failure sticky.  If the failed read\nleft a not-uptodate folio in the mapping, later callers find that folio and\nfail instead of retrying the read.\n\nKeep the existing page-cache insertion and locking order, but retry the\nMerkle item read when a not-uptodate folio is found in the mapping.  Also\nunlock the folio when read_key_bytes() fails so that a later caller can\nlock it and retry the read."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"06ed09351b67eb1114ae106a87a0ee3ea9adb3db","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"90e9eae1b5907fa36620ffb7f4f1a4afa9333427"},{"version":"06ed09351b67eb1114ae106a87a0ee3ea9adb3db","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c1fa005cdf3b7ff14cdfd7d512830088a3fc256b"},{"version":"06ed09351b67eb1114ae106a87a0ee3ea9adb3db","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"12b6d1a1715cbced2e445ca353f9c9987b8636e2"},{"version":"06ed09351b67eb1114ae106a87a0ee3ea9adb3db","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"81241f734f0f662378f5ffc53882b012923e6fe5"},{"version":"06ed09351b67eb1114ae106a87a0ee3ea9adb3db","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8cc569696dac51fc62bb39b3b8f530582b916d29"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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