Bug 2546405 (CVE-2026-98261) - CVE-2026-98261 kernel: cifs: Fix server use-after-free in cifs_chan_skip_or_disable()
Summary: CVE-2026-98261 kernel: cifs: Fix server use-after-free in cifs_chan_skip_or_d...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98261
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-06 09:15 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-10 19:20 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-06 09:15:41 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cifs: Fix server use-after-free in cifs_chan_skip_or_disable()

When a secondary channel is no longer supported by the server,
cifs_chan_skip_or_disable() drops the channel reference with
cifs_put_tcp_session() and then continues to use the server pointer by
calling cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect() on it and reading its
primary_server pointer. cifs_put_tcp_session() can drop the last
reference of the channel and tear it down, so both the channel and the
primary server (whose reference is also dropped by
cifs_put_tcp_session()) can be freed before they are signaled for
reconnect.

Signal the channel and the primary server and capture the primary
server pointer before dropping the channel reference with
cifs_put_tcp_session().


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