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Critical 9.8Published Aug 15, 2026

CVE-2026-72381ksmbd: fix use-after-free of fp->owner.name in durable handle owner check

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix use-after-free of fp->owner.name in durable handle owner check Two concurrent SMB2 durable reconnects (DH2C/DHnC) on the same persistent_id race the fp->owner.name compare-read in ksmbd_vfs_compare_durable_owner() against the kfree() in ksmbd_reopen_durable_fd()'s reopen-success path. fp->owner.name is a standalone kstrdup() buffer whose lifetime is independent of the fp refcount, and the two sites share no lock: the compare reads the buffer while the reopen frees it, so the strcmp() can dereference freed memory. Commit 7ce4fc40018d ("ksmbd: fix durable reconnect double-bind race in ksmbd_reopen_durable_fd") made the fp->conn claim atomic under global_ft.lock (closing the owner.name double-free and the ksmbd_file write-UAF), but the compare-read versus reopen-free pair was left unserialized. BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in strcmp+0x2c/0x80 Read of size 1 by task kworker strcmp ksmbd_vfs_compare_durable_owner smb2_check_durable_oplock smb2_open Freed by task kworker: kfree ksmbd_reopen_durable_fd smb2_open Allocated by task kworker: kstrdup session_fd_check smb2_session_logoff The buggy address belongs to the cache kmalloc-8 Serialize both sides of the race with fp->f_lock. The global durable file-table lock still protects the durable reconnect claim, but fp->owner.name is per-open state and does not need to block unrelated durable table lookups or reconnects. The teardown is left at its existing location after the reopen-success point so that an __open_id() rollback still retains owner.name for a later legitimate reconnect to verify.

CVSS
9.8 CRITICAL (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
Not given
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
Linux
NVD analysis
Received
Record last updated
Aug 17, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
Linux Linux
linux:linux (from the name)
from 712cdf917e77a6444ce3836874829d770db20ee6 before fb978d72052704c6b06c6b0f129fcd60b77169f5; from c7f0f0d01c88bdcb8b1694d7d321670013f7ed7d before 93d4d46bf9d442a12ea87278049ec416962c627f; from 00ce8d6789dae72d042a4522264964c72891ca37 before 5a5ac2852cd326529d02f778bc1aa6184701f4d7; from 49110a8ce654bbe56bef7c5e44cce31f4b102b8a before ed98719be41389d416953b8ef9f07a07dfea6b2b; from 49110a8ce654bbe56bef7c5e44cce31f4b102b8a before 38637163501fd9e2f684b8cd275d0db5d79f37c6; c908c853f304a4969b5aa10eba0b50350cc65b80; from 6.6.142 before 6.6.145; from 6.12.92 before 6.12.97; and 2 more ranges
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