CVE-2026-23423

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's btrfs file system. This vulnerability occurs in the btrfsuringreadextent function, where memory allocated for 'pages' is not properly freed when errors occur during read operations. This oversight can lead to resource exhaustion, potentially causing a Denial...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23423

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: free pages on error in btrfsuringreadextent In this function the 'pages' object is never freed in the hopes that it is picked up by btrfsuringreadfinished whenever that executes in the future. But that's just the happy pat...