Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

kernel: smb: client: validate dacloffset before building DACL pointers

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Server Message Block SMB client. A malicious server can exploit this vulnerability on 32-bit systems by providing a crafted dacloffset value. This can cause a pointer wrap, leading to the dereferencing of invalid Discretionary Access Control List DACL fields...

kernel: smb: client: validate the whole DACL before rewriting it in cifsacl

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Server Message Block SMB client, specifically within the cifsacl functionality. A malicious SMB server could provide a malformed Discretionary Access Control List DACL that claims to contain more Access Control Entries ACEs than are actually present. This...

PT-2026-44262

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description In the SMB client, the build sec desc function uses a buffer allocated with kmalloc, which does not zero-initialize the memory. Due to a change in the struct smb acl where the num aces...

Linux kernel 安全漏洞

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the Linux operating system developed by the Linux Foundation in the United States. There is a security vulnerability in the Linux kernel, which stems from an out-of-bounds read in the symlinkdata function within smb/client. This vulnerability arises because...

Linux kernel 安全漏洞

The Linux kernel is the core of the open-source operating system Linux, developed by the Linux Foundation in the United States. There is a security vulnerability in the Linux kernel, which stems from an out-of-bounds read in the smb2compoundop function within the smb client. This vulnerability ma...

CVE-2026-45972

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix potential UAF and double free in smb2openfile Zero out @erriov and @errbuftype before retrying SMB2open to prevent an UAF bug if @data != NULL, otherwise a double free...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-45972

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix potential UAF and double free in smb2openfile Zero out @erriov and @errbuftype before retrying SMB2open to prevent an UAF bug if @data != NULL, otherwise a double free...

CVE-2026-45972 smb: client: fix potential UAF and double free in smb2_open_file()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix potential UAF and double free in smb2openfile Zero out @erriov and @errbuftype before retrying SMB2open to prevent an UAF bug if @data != NULL, otherwise a double free...

CVE-2026-45972 smb: client: fix potential UAF and double free in smb2_open_file()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix potential UAF and double free in smb2openfile Zero out @erriov and @errbuftype before retrying SMB2open to prevent an UAF bug if @data != NULL, otherwise a double free...

PT-2026-43839

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description A Use-After-Free UAF and double free issue exists in the SMB client. The problem occurs within the smb2 open file function when retrying SMB2 open. If the data variable is not null, a UA...

OESA-2026-2416 kernel security update

The Linux Kernel, the operating system core itself. Security Fixes: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix use-after-free in cryptmessage when using async crypto The CVE-2024-50047 fix removed asynchronous crypto handling from cryptmessage, assuming a...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 6.1, Linux 5.10, and Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: Client side – fixed a potential deadlock that could occur when releasing mids. All callers of releasemid seem to hold a reference to @mid. Therefore, there is no need to call krefput&mid-refcount, releasemid under...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: Client: Fixed a potential Use-after-Allocation error in cifssignalcifsdforreconnect. Skipped sessions that are being terminated status == SESEXITING to avoid UAF errors...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: Client: Fixed a potential Use-after-Free UAF in isvalidoplockbreak. Skipped sessions that are being torn down status == SESEXITING to avoid UAF...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: Client: Fixed a potential Use-after-Free UAF in smb2isnetworknamedeleted. Skipped sessions that are being terminated status == SESEXITING to avoid UAF...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/smb/client: fixed an out-of-bounds read in cifssanitizeprepath. When cifssanitizeprepath is called with an empty string or a string containing only delimiters e.g., /, the current logic attempts to check cursor2 - 1 before...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: smb: client: fixed an incomplete backport in cfidsinvalidationworker The previous commit bdb596ceb4b7 “smb: client: fixed a potential UAF in smb2closecachedfid” was an incomplete backport. It also missed one krefput call in...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: Fixed a potential Use-after-Allocation UAF in cifsstatsprocwrite. Skipped sessions that are being terminated status == SESEXITING to avoid UAF...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s fs/smb/client component can be exploited to gain local privilege escalation. In the event of an error in smb3fscontextParseparam, the ctx-password variable is freed, but the variable is not set to NULL, which could lead to a double-free. We...