Vulnerability in Linux kernel (CVE-2026-74722)
Summary
Vulnerability in Linux kernel (CVE-2026-74722). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix memory leak in btrfs_do_encoded_write()
Local fuzzing of 6.12.94 has found the following memory leak:
Unreferenced object 0xffff888018050a80 (size 64):
comm "syz.0.17", pid 10297, jiffies 4294953601
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
10 0a 05 18 80 88 ff ff 10 0a 05 18 80 88 ff ff ................
backtrace (crc a8a6fc29):
kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:42 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4152 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4197 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x168/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:4358
kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:878 [inline]
extent_changeset_alloc fs/btrfs/extent_io.h:207 [inline]
qgroup_reserve_data+0x1c5/0x7d0 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:4305
btrfs_qgroup_reserve_data+0x2e/0xb0 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:4355
btrfs_do_encoded_write+0x92e/0x1040 fs/btrfs/inode.c:9746
btrfs_encoded_write fs/btrfs/file.c:1482 [inline]
btrfs_do_write_iter+0x280/0x610 fs/btrfs/file.c:1507
btrfs_ioctl_encoded_write+0x3d6/0x490 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:4738
btrfs_ioctl+0x6f9/0xc90 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:-1
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0xf9/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:892
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:47 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xbe/0x1a0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:78
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Unre…
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
Auto-generated summary
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-74722 has been found in Linux kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Linux kernel CVE-2026-74722" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-74722 (Linux kernel)
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Linux kernel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Linux kernel.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Audit SBOM/dependencies to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで Linux kernel を使っているサービスとバージョンを洗い出す。
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2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2026-74722 linux Fixed in: 6.1.187-1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-74722 linux-hwe-edge
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory github.com
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web github.com