CVE record · CVE-2026-98279

btrfs: handle lack of space when cleaning up verity items

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0017 · 5th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 6 Oct 2026, 08:45 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Linux	Linux	affected 146054090b0859b28fc39015c7704ccc3c3a347f to before 4b7ecabd87dc40998fe7870d7975279649229a3b git affected 146054090b0859b28fc39015c7704ccc3c3a347f to before efa5780b84f066f419a667f6b9542368b2f62074 git affected 146054090b0859b28fc39015c7704ccc3c3a347f to before 76bf149cd0298544631e756670b89c399c7acbca git Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 5.15 unaffected before 5.15 semver unaffected 6.18.54 to 6.18., inclusive semver unaffected 7.2.8 to 7.2., inclusive semver unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-98279
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 6 Oct 2026
Updated: 19 Oct 2026

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Severity and exploitation

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CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0017, the 5th percentile, on 10 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

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Sources

References from the CNA

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