CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-64396
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-07-25
- Last modified
- 2026-09-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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 UAF of struct file_lock in SMB2_LOCK deferred-lock cancellation
When a blocking byte-range lock request is deferred in the
FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED path, ksmbd registers the asynchronous work into
the connection's async_requests list via setup_async_work(). The cancel
callback smb2_remove_blocked_lock() holds a reference to the flock.
If the lock waiter is subsequently woken up but the work state is no
longer KSMBD_WORK_ACTIVE (e.g., due to a concurrent cancellation), the
cleanup path calls locks_free_lock(flock) without dequeuing the work from
the async_requests list. Concurrently, smb2_cancel() walks the list
under conn->request_lock and invokes the cancel callback, which then
dereferences the already freed 'flock'. This leads to a slab-use-after-free
inside __wake_up_common.
Fix this by restructuring the cleanup logic after the worker returns
from ksmbd_vfs_posix_lock_wait(). Move list_del(&smb_lock->llist) and
release_async_work(work) to the top of the cleanup block. This guarantees
that the async work is completely dequeued and serialized under
conn->request_lock before locks_free_lock(flock) is called, rendering
the flock unreachable for any concurrent smb2_cancel().
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15 < 6.1.178)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.145)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.96)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.39)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.1.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/367c42a611fe488b7b03f1f6737f4dee0e8b20a2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/463bbd79698513af4dad50fe1c573825f297ca2e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5aa1cb01155f96824003baf7997cdf1f150caba3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c75275c0fc9a2deb0d8f5604edcb16f288171c8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7703fd9aba1f2483c8e55f9ff73b7663e0761ed9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d20d1c8ba5765d1d12eefc0aee6385ab3f240e1e Patch