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EUVD-2026-347974
European Vulnerability Database identifier assigned by ENISAReserved
2026-10-02 08:16
Assigner
ENISA
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CVE-2026-45972 (GCVE-0-2026-45972)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-27 12:18 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:28
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
smb: client: fix potential UAF and double free in smb2_open_file()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: fix potential UAF and double free in smb2_open_file()
Zero out @err_iov and @err_buftype before retrying SMB2_open() to
prevent an UAF bug if @data != NULL, otherwise a double free.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- CWE-825 - Expired Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
9 references
Impacted products
7 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
743f70406264348c0830f38409eb6c40a42fb2db , < 96e53bb3ee2f354cf6b4ab07bcc56e500f8b3f74
(git)
Affected: 3a6d6b332f92990958602c1e35ce0173e2dd62e9 , < 7425453ea16dbc3bbb0f6cac4d60b537e5e4d151 (git) Affected: b64e3b5d8d759dd4333992e4ba4dadf9359952c8 , < 4d339b219004869e96c4ce56b8891f83a38da4c0 (git) Affected: 9ee608a64e37cea5b4b13e436c559dd0fb2ad1b5 , < e66dcf7bb9c4df5582c82bc3582725abcbfbea73 (git) Affected: e3a43633023e3cacaca60d4b8972d084a2b06236 , < 639deb962986ef2f5e2a6d5a600c66f922471e81 (git) Affected: e3a43633023e3cacaca60d4b8972d084a2b06236 , < ebbbc4bfad4cb355d17c671223d0814ee3ef4eda (git) Affected: 6.1.163 , < 6.1.165 (semver) Affected: 6.6.124 , < 6.6.128 (semver) Affected: 6.12.70 , < 6.12.75 (semver) Affected: 6.18.10 , < 6.18.14 (semver) |
|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
6.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.19 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.165 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.128 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.75 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.14 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.19.4 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 |
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
|
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 |
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
|
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 |
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 |
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
|
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 |
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
|
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