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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98245"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:45:14.758Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:54:53.797Z"
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-2026-98245"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98245.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98245"
title: "btrfs: take commit root semaphore when iterating in mark_block_group_to_copy()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: take commit root semaphore when iterating in mark_block_group_to_copy()\n\nmark_block_group_to_copy() iterates over the commit root with\nskip_locking=true. A concurrent transaction commit can swap and free\nthe commit root during iteration, causing use-after-free when\naccessing extent buffers.\n\nFix it by using path-\u003eneed_commit_sem to protect the commit root search."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"78ce9fc269af6e69c1399ab910ba6bc81c934f67","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"93a025166495c63ba5b8ac721c7040d5312e8335"},{"version":"78ce9fc269af6e69c1399ab910ba6bc81c934f67","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8e2007b263ea250251ec3021a0a197da990ee1a8"},{"version":"78ce9fc269af6e69c1399ab910ba6bc81c934f67","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"709f6a5e986535005110c6c69b322f63631cb200"},{"version":"78ce9fc269af6e69c1399ab910ba6bc81c934f67","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c32490c6d3f3a9f2d177d57c7eb8bbc347561d08"},{"version":"78ce9fc269af6e69c1399ab910ba6bc81c934f67","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0594e3423f4ba3137c734371169491f9a98e9af4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"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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