CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-31718
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-05-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ksmbd: fix use-after-free in __ksmbd_close_fd() via durable scavenger
When a durable file handle survives session disconnect (TCP close without
SMB2_LOGOFF), session_fd_check() sets fp->conn = NULL to preserve the
handle for later reconnection. However, it did not clean up the byte-range
locks on fp->lock_list.
Later, when the durable scavenger thread times out and calls
__ksmbd_close_fd(NULL, fp), the lock cleanup loop did:
spin_lock(&fp->conn->llist_lock);
This caused a slab use-after-free because fp->conn was NULL and the
original connection object had already been freed by
ksmbd_tcp_disconnect().
The root cause is asymmetric cleanup: lock entries (smb_lock->clist) were
left dangling on the freed conn->lock_list while fp->conn was nulled out.
To fix this issue properly, we need to handle the lifetime of
smb_lock->clist across three paths:
- Safely skip clist deletion when list is empty and fp->conn is NULL.
- Remove the lock from the old connection's lock_list in
session_fd_check()
- Re-add the lock to the new connection's lock_list in
ksmbd_reopen_durable_fd().
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.6.32 < 6.7)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.9 < 6.12.84)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.25)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.2)
• linux linux kernel 7.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0000a7780e0e446a28a273572f6ea8f7f582f694 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/235e32320a470fcd3998fb3774f2290a0eb302a1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d6682726c2d3a46d31dae88b8166786b09b03ad Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b34fc42cfe922e551f7a27d3ac3bb016e41d7dd9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e33c65f011980b4ad4abfd93585ec2079856368f Patch