Threats tagged 'ghsa-j9r6-v9mw-fjh8'

A vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Btrfs filesystem was resolved where active device pointers were not restored after a failed sprout operation. This flaw could cause the system to dereference freed device pointers and crash. The issue occurs when the kernel switches device pointers to a new device before writable chunks are created, and if that process fails, the pointers are not switched back properly.