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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-97416" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-24T16:03:23.731Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-03T10:58:07.862Z" 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-2026-97416" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97416.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97416" title: "btrfs: balance: fix potential bg lookup failure in btrfs_may_alloc_data_chunk()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: balance: fix potential bg lookup failure in btrfs_may_alloc_data_chunk()\n\n[BUG]\nRunning btrfs balance can trigger a null-ptr-deref before relocating a\ndata chunk when metadata corruption leaves a chunk in the chunk tree\nwithout a corresponding block group in the in-memory cache:\n\n KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000088-0x000000000000008f]\n RIP: 0010:btrfs_may_alloc_data_chunk+0x40/0x1c0 fs/btrfs/volumes.c:3601\n Call Trace:\n __btrfs_balance fs/btrfs/volumes.c:4217 [inline]\n btrfs_balance+0x2516/0x42b0 fs/btrfs/volumes.c:4604\n btrfs_ioctl_balance fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:3577 [inline]\n btrfs_ioctl+0x25cf/0x5b90 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:5313\n ...\n\n[CAUSE]\n__btrfs_balance() iterates the on-disk chunk tree and passes the chunk\nlogical bytenr to btrfs_may_alloc_data_chunk() before relocating a data\nchunk. That helper then queries the in-memory block group cache:\n\n cache = btrfs_lookup_block_group(fs_info, chunk_offset);\n chunk_type = cache-\u003eflags; /* cache may be NULL */\n\nA corrupt image can contain a chunk item whose matching block group\nitem is missing, so no block group is ever inserted into the cache. In\nthat case btrfs_lookup_block_group() returns NULL.\n\nThe code only guards this with ASSERT(cache), which becomes a no-op when\nCONFIG_BTRFS_ASSERT is disabled. The subsequent dereference of\ncache-\u003eflags therefore crashes the kernel.\n\n[FIX]\nAdd a NULL check after btrfs_lookup_block_group() in\nbtrfs_may_alloc_data_chunk() and print and error message for clarity." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a6f93c71d412ba8ed743152c3a54ad0b78dcd9c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9f37a6d6ae9e998232e2ba091ab4999cdf967e1b"},{"version":"a6f93c71d412ba8ed743152c3a54ad0b78dcd9c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e479236a8f4d85c4fb6b3f7c2556c21f583e2bf2"},{"version":"a6f93c71d412ba8ed743152c3a54ad0b78dcd9c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"322f891b4d4fe64acb3351a0ffa62a7fa5ba7256"},{"version":"a6f93c71d412ba8ed743152c3a54ad0b78dcd9c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"81a664ed8b1a44c76b204c4bd0d751317a02c5cd"},{"version":"a6f93c71d412ba8ed743152c3a54ad0b78dcd9c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9740dd0c17a4be8cc47a06c5ca5293471a7e286e"},{"version":"a6f93c71d412ba8ed743152c3a54ad0b78dcd9c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"59f75e0c8724d4adebc08c7dd3ff2358b80c21f7"},{"version":"a6f93c71d412ba8ed743152c3a54ad0b78dcd9c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"18d32b0013efba19f7ad3e5b08d7aee813d604a6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.16"},{"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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