# 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-2026-98269"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:45:31.727Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:16:40.051Z"
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-2026-98269"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98269.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98269"
title: "btrfs: abort transaction on failure to update inode for hole punching and reflinking"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: abort transaction on failure to update inode for hole punching and reflinking\n\nIf we fail to update the inode we error out without aborting the\ntransaction, which can result in a persistent inconsistency if after\nthe failure the transaction is committed, as we have dropped file\nextent items from a range and either punched a hole or insert a new file\nextent item for that range (for reflinks).\n\nSo add the missing transaction abort."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2aaa66558172b017f36bf38ae69372813dedee9d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2605eb9ba3bbd4c9f455cfe6b85bd28a1da7067d"},{"version":"2aaa66558172b017f36bf38ae69372813dedee9d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"834a3b5c5f1ec0df48c1a6208f9989f4ffdaa0b6"},{"version":"2aaa66558172b017f36bf38ae69372813dedee9d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9588850bfa75c78ce73c2f6f72544d19d2e9beb6"},{"version":"2aaa66558172b017f36bf38ae69372813dedee9d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"36c68dc909845c049e0286d229bc502947239452"},{"version":"2aaa66558172b017f36bf38ae69372813dedee9d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"97fcd34aa9fd73cefe3120ac9a82ca9d7763922f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.7"},{"version":"6.6.158","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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