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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-93800" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-24T16:02:34.370Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-03T10:57:34.733Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z" 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-2026-93800" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93800.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93800" title: "btrfs: fix use-after-free on reloc root after error in insert_dirty_subvol()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: fix use-after-free on reloc root after error in insert_dirty_subvol()\n\nIf during relocation we fail in insert_dirty_subvol() because\nbtrfs_update_reloc_root() returned an error, we will leave a root's\nreloc_root field pointing to a reloc root that was freed instead of NULL,\nresulting later in a use-after-free, or double free attempt during\nunmount.\n\nThe sequence of steps is this:\n\n1) During relocation the call to btrfs_update_reloc_root() in\n insert_dirty_subvol() fails, so insert_dirty_subvol() returns the\n error to merge_reloc_root() without adding the root to the list\n rc-\u003edirty_subvol_roots;\n\n2) Then merge_reloc_root() aborts the current transaction because\n insert_dirty_subvol() returned an error;\n\n3) Up the call chain, merge_reloc_roots() gets the error, adds the\n reloc root for root X to the local reloc_roots list and jumps to the\n 'out' label, where it calls free_reloc_roots() to free all the reloc\n roots in the local reloc_roots list. This frees the reloc root for\n root X;\n\n4) We go up the call chain to relocate_block_group() which calls\n clean_dirty_subvols() to go over dirty roots and set their\n -\u003ereloc_root field to NULL, but root X is not in the dirty_subvol_roots\n list, so its -\u003ereloc_root still points to a reloc root;\n\n5) Relocation finishes, with an error and a transaction abort, but the\n -\u003ereloc_root field for root X still points to the reloc root that was\n freed in step 3;\n\n6) When unmounting the fs we end up calling:\n\n btrfs_free_fs_roots()\n btrfs_drop_and_free_fs_root()\n --\u003e calls btrfs_put_root() against root X's -\u003ereloc_root\n which is not NULL and points to the already freed\n reloc root in step 4 above\n\n Resulting in a use-after-free to a double free attempt.\n\nSyzbot reported this with the following dmesg/syslog:\n\n [ 106.004389][ T5339] BTRFS error (device loop0 state A): Transaction aborted (error -5)\n [ 106.014266][ T5339] BTRFS: error (device loop0 state A) in merge_reloc_root:1655: errno=-5 IO failure\n [ 106.021891][ T1061] BTRFS error (device loop0 state A): error while writing out transaction: -5\n [ 106.026964][ T1061] BTRFS warning (device loop0 state A): Skipping commit of aborted transaction.\n [ 106.033807][ T5340] BTRFS error (device loop0 state A): bdev /dev/loop0 errs: wr 3, rd 0, flush 0, corrupt 0, gen 0\n [ 106.039265][ T1061] BTRFS: error (device loop0 state A) in cleanup_transaction:2067: errno=-5 IO failure\n [ 106.044382][ T5339] BTRFS info (device loop0 state EA): forced readonly\n [ 106.074329][ T5339] BTRFS: error (device loop0 state EA) in merge_reloc_roots:1887: errno=-5 IO failure\n [ 106.081004][ T5356] BTRFS info (device loop0 state EA): scrub: started on devid 1\n [ 106.085611][ T5339] BTRFS info (device loop0 state EA): balance: ended with status: -30\n [ 106.089517][ T5356] BTRFS info (device loop0 state EA): scrub: not finished on devid 1 with status: -30\n [ 106.662365][ T5338] BTRFS info (device loop0 state EA): last unmount of filesystem 3a375e4e-b156-4d76-a2ad-16e198ce1409\n [ 106.682946][ T5338] ==================================================================\n [ 106.686574][ T5338] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in btrfs_put_root+0x2f/0x250\n [ 106.690090][ T5338] Write of size 4 at addr ffff88803f978630 by task syz.0.0/5338\n [ 106.693173][ T5338]\n [ 106.694279][ T5338] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5338 Comm: syz.0.0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)\n [ 106.694293][ T5338] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014\n [ 106.694300][ T5338] Call Trace:\n [ 106.694308][ T5338] \u003cTASK\u003e\n [ 106.694314][ T5338] dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150\n [ 106.694331][ T5338] print_address_description+0x55/0x1e0\n [ 106.694343][ T5338] ? btrfs_put_root+0x2f/0x250\n [ 106.694358][ T5338] print_report+0x58/0x70\n [ 106.\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f32b84d7c977e1906a4781b93b3c93090b6cd675","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5a247097c5f94b51ffc991b444d998ad6e85875f"},{"version":"592fbcd50c99b8adf999a2a54f9245caff333139","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6372dd394ea907cd85a7a8063db320ec73dfaed0"},{"version":"592fbcd50c99b8adf999a2a54f9245caff333139","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9f599d120b2b79d2d937c3935b7cdf2697514283"},{"version":"592fbcd50c99b8adf999a2a54f9245caff333139","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a01837ae174a2a968c245a30e6dd010f50eaf05d"},{"version":"592fbcd50c99b8adf999a2a54f9245caff333139","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"97a540d72ebcb21853d11f2a56782fe377f358e7"},{"version":"592fbcd50c99b8adf999a2a54f9245caff333139","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fda1b6636ff1846f00643e791099db5564b547d9"},{"version":"592fbcd50c99b8adf999a2a54f9245caff333139","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"83201804efa4a5168be754e1dfc9b2faee760cac"},{"version":"aa18bc1ff8a51f082d5b3b6d07693797637b4028","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4cb0aea2e250eee35ccfac5f5395cd8f3238a9e5","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.10.36","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.271"},{"version":"5.11.20","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"},{"version":"5.12.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.13"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.13"},{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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