CVE-2026-23205

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb/client: fix memory leak in smb2openfile Reproducer: 1. server: directories are exported read-only 2. client: mount -t cifs //$serverip/export /mnt 3. client: dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/file bs=512 count=1000 oflag=direct 4...

CVE-2026-23205

The CVE-2026-23205 entry describes a memory leak in the Linux kernel SMB/CIFS client (smb2_open_file()). The provided reproducer shows a scenario with a read-only CIFS export, client mount, and module removal that triggers a leak during cleanup of SMB request buffers, leading to a kmem_cache leak...