Answer in brief
CVE-2026-43359 records a Unknown severity vulnerability in btrfs: fix transaction abort on set received ioctl due to item overflow. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
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Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | >=dd5f9615fc5c5e8d3751aab3a17b92768fb1ce70 <b9914db13ac15aca3b74544c0bb1a2e0dad1f174 || >=dd5f9615fc5c5e8d3751aab3a17b92768fb1ce70 <b19c0465e4daad5aa8f60552ea0578cf31a11b1e || >=dd5f9615fc5c5e8d3751aab3a17b92768fb1ce70 <2e57b8cac2ba0d38aac76c1ecdfd8b899e3581a5 || >=dd5f9615fc5c5e8d3751aab3a17b92768fb1ce70 <d11aefe654a04fc41996d254748d6a38b6b0a7be || >=dd5f9615fc5c5e8d3751aab3a17b92768fb1ce70 <41fb97353ff58fa4f31904c343fc8e3df2f7517d || >=dd5f9615fc5c5e8d3751aab3a17b92768fb1ce70 <87f2c46003fce4d739138aab4af1942b1afdadac | b9914db13ac15aca3b74544c0bb1a2e0dad1f174, b19c0465e4daad5aa8f60552ea0578cf31a11b1e, 2e57b8cac2ba0d38aac76c1ecdfd8b899e3581a5, d11aefe654a04fc41996d254748d6a38b6b0a7be, 41fb97353ff58fa4f31904c343fc8e3df2f7517d, 87f2c46003fce4d739138aab4af1942b1afdadac |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | 3.12 | Not reported |
Published upstream
May 8, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Nov 6, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Nov 6, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix transaction abort on set received ioctl due to item overflow If the set received ioctl fails due to an item overflow when attempting to add the BTRFS_UUID_KEY_RECEIVED_SUBVOL we have to abort the transaction since we did some metadata updates before. This means that if a user calls this ioctl with the same received UUID field for a lot of subvolumes, we will hit the overflow, trigger the transaction abort and turn the filesystem into RO mode. A malicious user could exploit this, and this ioctl does not even requires that a user has admin privileges (CAP_SYS_ADMIN), only that he/she owns the subvolume. Fix this by doing an early check for item overflow before starting a transaction. This is also race safe because we are holding the subvol_sem semaphore in exclusive (write) mode. A test case for fstests will follow soon.
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