CVE-2026-31693 (GCVE-0-2026-31693)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-30 11:47 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:24
VLAI
Title
cifs: some missing initializations on replay
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: some missing initializations on replay In several places in the code, we have a label to signify the start of the code where a request can be replayed if necessary. However, some of these places were missing the necessary reinitializations of certain local variables before replay. This change makes sure that these variables get initialized after the label.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 433042a91f9373241307725b52de573933ffedbf , < c854ab481ece4b3e5f4c2e8b22824f015ff874a5 (git)
Affected: 4f1fffa2376922f3d1d506e49c0fd445b023a28e , < 1d731e512134495e0ef490ade0e4d91dc0d515ec (git)
Affected: 4f1fffa2376922f3d1d506e49c0fd445b023a28e , < 7c9ce68192eef14c777cb6ce17155d2eb2431aea (git)
Affected: 4f1fffa2376922f3d1d506e49c0fd445b023a28e , < c99e160938b627f6f28edee930e8abc157e84386 (git)
Affected: 4f1fffa2376922f3d1d506e49c0fd445b023a28e , < 14f66f44646333d2bfd7ece36585874fd72f8286 (git)
Affected: 6.6.32 , < 6.6.128 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.128 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.75 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.16 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.6 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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