CVE-2026-97416

The Linux kernel contains a vulnerability in the btrfs filesystem. A null-pointer dereference can occur during the btrfs_balance operation if metadata corruption leaves a chunk in the chunk tree without a corresponding block group in the in-memory cache. Specifically, the function btrfs_may_alloc...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-97416

"The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - btrfs: balance: fix potential bg lookup failure in btrfsmayallocdatachunk BUG Running btrfs balance can trigger a null-ptr-deref before relocating a data chunk...