EUVD-2026-103691

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: use finishnoopen for non-regular inodes An OCREAT open can find an existing symlink or another non-regular inode. cifsatomicopen calls finishopen on it and attaches a cifsFileInfo. Symlink inodes have no CIFS release...

CVE-2026-98451 smb: client: use finish_no_open() for non-regular inodes

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: use finishnoopen for non-regular inodes An OCREAT open can find an existing symlink or another non-regular inode. cifsatomicopen calls finishopen on it and attaches a cifsFileInfo. Symlink inodes have no CIFS release...

CVE-2026-98451

The Linux kernel contains a vulnerability in the SMB client where an O_CREAT open operation on an existing symlink or non-regular inode causes a dentry reference leak . This occurs because cifs_atomic_open() calls finish_open() on these inodes, but symlink inodes lack a CIFS release operation. Th...