# 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-2026-98081"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:24:18.091Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:54:24.847Z"
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-2026-98081"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98081.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98081"
title: "btrfs: zoned: finish active block group cleanup if call_zone_finish() fails"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: zoned: finish active block group cleanup if call_zone_finish() fails\n\ndo_zone_finish() clears BLOCK_GROUP_FLAG_ZONE_IS_ACTIVE before finishing\nthe zones. If call_zone_finish() then fails it returned early, leaving the\nnow inactive block group on fs_info-\u003ezone_active_bgs, leaking its\nreference, the BTRFS_FS_NEED_ZONE_FINISH waiters are never woken, and as\nits alloc_offset equals the zone capacity btrfs_zone_finish_one_bg() keeps\nselecting it, spinning btrfs_zoned_activate_one_bg().\n\nFall through to the cleanup on failure too and return the error, but keep\nthe block group read-only as its zones are left inconsistent."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d70cbdda75da3f258118a558c087157e073229fb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"433d52b196a689b18dcfadc7cf6c784f0e5cc7c9"},{"version":"d70cbdda75da3f258118a558c087157e073229fb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"36b9cdab44848f25879ca625275c92b007f84653"},{"version":"d70cbdda75da3f258118a558c087157e073229fb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"40370f02a1ca3760f8925ffcbe76eb4d91ea758d"},{"version":"d70cbdda75da3f258118a558c087157e073229fb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e1b168a53174b385e3548bfbd079513b22ac240c"},{"version":"d70cbdda75da3f258118a558c087157e073229fb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a18a6b93a2843b9d103d3456bbd4b3f90282a379"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.19"},{"version":"6.6.160","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":"7.2.7","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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