# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98091"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:24:24.082Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:13:43.350Z"
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-2026-98091"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98091.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98091"
title: "btrfs: detach failed sprout device from transaction update list"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: detach failed sprout device from transaction update list\n\nWhen creating the first metadata chunk for a sprout filesystem,\ncreate_chunk() adds the new device to the transaction dev_update_list\nthrough device-\u003epost_commit_list.\n\nIf the subsequent system chunk creation fails, btrfs_init_new_device()\naborts the transaction and releases the device while post_commit_list is\nstill linked. This triggers a warning in btrfs_free_device() and leaves\nthe transaction list referencing freed memory.\n\nDetach the device while holding chunk_mutex before releasing it."
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