# 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-2026-98244"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:45:14.120Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:16:15.841Z"
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-2026-98244"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98244.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98244"
title: "btrfs: clear free space tree creation state on rebuild failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: clear free space tree creation state on rebuild failure\n\nbtrfs_rebuild_free_space_tree() sets BTRFS_FS_CREATING_FREE_SPACE_TREE\nbefore rebuilding the free space tree.  Several error paths return\nwithout clearing this flag.\n\nThe transaction restart failure path can leave the flag set on a live\nfilesystem, causing delayed reference processing to be skipped. Clear it\non all free space tree rebuild failure paths. Keep\nBTRFS_FS_FREE_SPACE_TREE_UNTRUSTED set, since a failed rebuild leaves\nthe free space tree untrusted. Callers must fall back to extent-tree\ncaching."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"882af9f13e830c0a4ef696bb72cd5998a5067a93","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a32bedab8ece9d1f90a1476a5b486a1804dc78ba"},{"version":"882af9f13e830c0a4ef696bb72cd5998a5067a93","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b1df2997d0cd2be7bef7b4ab64ccfd1019dedc81"},{"version":"882af9f13e830c0a4ef696bb72cd5998a5067a93","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3565893cc72cdf6b795cf6a33e7ff9605322334d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"},{"version":"6.18.54","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.8","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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