Answer in brief
CVE-2026-64396 records a High severity (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability in ksmbd: fix UAF of struct file_lock in SMB2_LOCK deferred-lock cancellation. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 8.8. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed versions |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | Not reported | Not reported |
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | >=e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 <367c42a611fe488b7b03f1f6737f4dee0e8b20a2 || >=e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 <7703fd9aba1f2483c8e55f9ff73b7663e0761ed9 || >=e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 <463bbd79698513af4dad50fe1c573825f297ca2e || >=e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 <5aa1cb01155f96824003baf7997cdf1f150caba3 || >=e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 <5c75275c0fc9a2deb0d8f5604edcb16f288171c8 || >=e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 <d20d1c8ba5765d1d12eefc0aee6385ab3f240e1e | 367c42a611fe488b7b03f1f6737f4dee0e8b20a2, 7703fd9aba1f2483c8e55f9ff73b7663e0761ed9, 463bbd79698513af4dad50fe1c573825f297ca2e, 5aa1cb01155f96824003baf7997cdf1f150caba3, 5c75275c0fc9a2deb0d8f5604edcb16f288171c8, d20d1c8ba5765d1d12eefc0aee6385ab3f240e1e |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | 5.15 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Jul 25, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Sep 4, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Aug 5, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix UAF of struct file_lock in SMB2_LOCK deferred-lock cancellation When a blocking byte-range lock request is deferred in the FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED path, ksmbd registers the asynchronous work into the connection's async_requests list via setup_async_work(). The cancel callback smb2_remove_blocked_lock() holds a reference to the flock. If the lock waiter is subsequently woken up but the work state is no longer KSMBD_WORK_ACTIVE (e.g., due to a concurrent cancellation), the cleanup path calls locks_free_lock(flock) without dequeuing the work from the async_requests list. Concurrently, smb2_cancel() walks the list under conn->request_lock and invokes the cancel callback, which then dereferences the already freed 'flock'. This leads to a slab-use-after-free inside __wake_up_common. Fix this by restructuring the cleanup logic after the worker returns from ksmbd_vfs_posix_lock_wait(). Move list_del(&smb_lock->llist) and release_async_work(work) to the top of the cleanup block. This guarantees that the async work is completely dequeued and serialized under conn->request_lock before locks_free_lock(flock) is called, rendering the flock unreachable for any concurrent smb2_cancel().
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