CVE-2024-26644

A vulnerability was found in the Btrfs filesystem implementation within the Linux kernel, where a NULL pointer dereference occurred because of create_pending_snapshot() function, attempting to initialize a new root item from a deleted subvolume’s root.

Mitigation

Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example. Please update the affected package as soon as possible.