{"id":"CVE-2026-23223","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-23223","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T08:37:12.074Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: fix UAF in xchk_btree_check_block_owner We cannot dereference bs->cur when trying to determine if bs->cur aliases bs->sc->sa.{bno,rmap}_cur after the latter has been freed.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfs: fix UAF in xchk_btree_check_block_owner\n\nWe cannot dereference bs->cur when trying to determine if bs->cur\naliases bs->sc->sa.{bno,rmap}_cur after the latter has been freed.\nFix this by sampling before type before any freeing could happen.\nThe correct temporal ordering was broken when we removed xfs_btnum_t.","published":"2026-02-18T16:22:32.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T10:21:08.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-416"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.0014,"percentile":0.03296,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.14%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c253e11225bc5167217897885b85093e17c2217","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d411278dda293a507cb794db7d9ed3511c685c6","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba5264610423d9653aa36920520902d83841bcfd","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed82e7949f5cac3058f4100f3cd670531d41a266","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-23223","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}