smb: client: fix potential UAF and double free in smb2_open_file()
28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 9.8epss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 74% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-45972https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2481973https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d339b219004869e96c4ce56b8891f83a38da4c0https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/639deb962986ef2f5e2a6d5a600c66f922471e81https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7425453ea16dbc3bbb0f6cac4d60b537e5e4d151https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96e53bb3ee2f354cf6b4ab07bcc56e500f8b3f74https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e66dcf7bb9c4df5582c82bc3582725abcbfbea73https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ebbbc4bfad4cb355d17c671223d0814ee3ef4edahttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-45972.json