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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-74608

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/22/2026 12:16:33 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

                  
                
              
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: client: Fix use-after-free in cifs_try_adding_channels()

cifs_try_adding_channels() takes a temporary reference to an interface
before dropping iface_lock. If cifs_ses_add_channel() fails, it drops
that reference and then increments iface->weight_fulfilled.

A concurrent interface list refresh can remove the list reference while
channel creation is in progress. In that case, the failure-path
kref_put() releases the last reference and frees iface. Updating
weight_fulfilled afterward then accesses freed memory.

Increment weight_fulfilled before dropping the temporary reference,
keeping iface alive for the final access.
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1305eadc6a7d78a8d0a52eee29ddd2d9e8a27805
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ffacbadc14530e55b8d86f7b917524f6a0fb891
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47dfac48bce7198ad4f1a388fc8c9491f878ac3b
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4986410316b1ae0e63c6ce418e4eb196723626e7
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64d7584e62ac8cdc750455c5fdc6008fc2de4f06
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c292d4686f717c03e5022fc4ae7c782f39a94915
Added Affected

                  
                
              
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