CVE-2026-23181 — Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in Linux
Severity
4.7MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 92.80%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedFeb 14
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: sync read disk super and set block size
When the user performs a btrfs mount, the block device is not set
correctly. The user sets the block size of the block device to 0x4000
by executing the BLKBSZSET command.
Since the block size change also changes the mapping->flags value, this
further affects the result of the mapping_min_folio_order() calculation.
Let's analyze the following two scenarios:
Scenario 1: Without e…
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux3c20917120ce61f2a123ca0810293872f4c6b5a4 — ccb3c75d57039adb3170ae54a0d470e359705984+2
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-4fxm-jm89-7f7q: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: sync read disk super and set block size
When the user performs a btrfs mo↗2026-02-14
OSV▶
CVE-2026-23181: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: sync read disk super and set block size When the user performs a btrfs moun↗2026-02-14