{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-98081 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-98081 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 25 Sep 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-98081 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-98081 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 25 Sep 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-98081 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98081/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98081/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-98081","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98081/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-98081","record":{"aliases":["AZL-104561","BELL-CVE-2026-98081","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-98081","GHSA-vxgx-5rhh-g7hj","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-98081"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A logic error in the Linux kernel's btrfs zoned storage handling can cause a denial of service by spinning indefinitely when zone finishing fails.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: zoned: finish active block group cleanup if call_zone_finish() fails\n\ndo_zone_finish() clears BLOCK_GROUP_FLAG_ZONE_IS_ACTIVE before finishing\nthe zones. If call_zone_finish() then fails it returned early, leaving the\nnow inactive block group on fs_info-\u003ezone_active_bgs, leaking its\nreference, the BTRFS_FS_NEED_ZONE_FINISH waiters are never woken, and as\nits alloc_offset equals the zone capacity btrfs_zone_finish_one_bg() keeps\nselecting it, spinning btrfs_zoned_activate_one_bg().\n\nFall through to the cleanup on failure too and return the error, but keep\nthe block group read-only as its zones are left inconsistent.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"btrfs: zoned: finish active block group cleanup if call_zone_finish() fails","id":"CVE-2026-98081","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"btrfs: fix the possible bioc_list memory leak during error","id":"CVE-2026-98082"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"btrfs: do not force reloc root creation during qgroup_account_snapshot()","id":"CVE-2026-98080"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-09-25","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-21","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A logic error in the Linux kernel's btrfs zoned storage handling can cause a denial of service by spinning indefinitely when zone finishing fails.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98081/"}