CVE-2026-23230

CVE-2026-23230 is a Linux kernel local race in the SMB/CIFS client code where cached_fid bitfields (is_open, has_lease, on_list) were updated via concurrent paths, causing read–modify–write races. The root cause is that these three flags shared a single byte, so an update to one could overwrite o...

CVE-2026-23230: Undefined Security Weakness

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: split cachedfid bitfields to avoid shared-byte RMW races isopen, haslease and onlist are stored in the same bitfield byte in struct cachedfid but are updated in different code paths that may run concurrently. Bitfiel...