CVE-2026-98261 (GCVE-0-2026-98261)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-06 08:45 – Updated: 2026-10-07 06:49
VLAI
Title
cifs: Fix server use-after-free in cifs_chan_skip_or_disable()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix server use-after-free in cifs_chan_skip_or_disable() When a secondary channel is no longer supported by the server, cifs_chan_skip_or_disable() drops the channel reference with cifs_put_tcp_session() and then continues to use the server pointer by calling cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect() on it and reading its primary_server pointer. cifs_put_tcp_session() can drop the last reference of the channel and tear it down, so both the channel and the primary server (whose reference is also dropped by cifs_put_tcp_session()) can be freed before they are signaled for reconnect. Signal the channel and the primary server and capture the primary server pointer before dropping the channel reference with cifs_put_tcp_session().
Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 54/100 over 6633 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 50e8363ecc85da49764781da90ebffe1a657b370 , < 0338489960ddad6368bce55e8adbc176c523093d (git)
Affected: f591062bdbf4742b7f1622173017f19e927057b0 , < edd52eae5fcfb8433b6bb0e7cd98db438fe01227 (git)
Affected: f591062bdbf4742b7f1622173017f19e927057b0 , < fcc0a935bb6e37ecbf7e4335061309f896f35780 (git)
Affected: f591062bdbf4742b7f1622173017f19e927057b0 , < 7a1b27780b113583a94256d58dabfe7c0d9286e7 (git)
Affected: f591062bdbf4742b7f1622173017f19e927057b0 , < 717e0a25036b6c92cecace30913b2d874a4c22b8 (git)
Affected: d61ba1d71ea6039eca7ada870bf3f0c3c8fc12e4 (git)
Affected: 6.6.15 , < 6.6.158 (semver)
Affected: 6.7.3 , < 6.8 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.158 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.112 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.54 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.8 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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