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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98445"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:14:55.754Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:19:40.826Z"
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-2026-98445"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98445.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98445"
title: "xfs: don't let memory failures leak blocks and kill repairs"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfs: don't let memory failures leak blocks and kill repairs\n\nLOLLM complains that a memory allocation failure in\nxrep_newbt_add_blocks results in online repair leaking blocks that were\npreviously allocated to write a new btree, but the problem is worse than\nthat -- a limitation of the codebase is that the callers cannot undo the\ntransaction /and/ return the error -- either you undo all changes and\ncommit the transaction, or you error out and the filesystem goes down.\n\nHowever, the new btree space reservation object isn't that big (~48\nbytes).  Let's just do a NOFAIL allocation and the problem goes away."
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