CVE-2026-89636

Updated on 11 Sep 2026

Severity

9.8 Critical severity

Details

CVSS score
9.8
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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

smb: client: clear ce->tgthint in free_tgts()

When free_tgts() frees all structures in ce->tlist, ce->tgthint is left pointing to one of the freed cache_dfs_tgt structures.

If ce->tgthint is not reset before it is used later, it results in a use-after-free.

Set ce->tgthint to NULL in free_tgts() after the elements are freed to reflect that no elements remain.

Details

Affected packages:
linux @ 4.19.0 (+2 more)