CVE-2026-98174 (GCVE-0-2026-98174)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-06 08:44 – Updated: 2026-10-07 06:49
VLAI
Title
smb: client: fix rlist race and missing initialization
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix rlist race and missing initialization TCP_Server_Info.rlist is allocated via kzalloc which zeros both ->next and ->prev to NULL instead of pointing to itself, making list_empty() always return false and list_add() dereference a NULL ->prev pointer. Also, cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect() can be called concurrently from multiple cifsd threads, allowing the same server's rlist node to be added twice into the local list, corrupting it.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 54/100 over 6633 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < b5f924ffbfa976e4b97f17e8132c595b97482c2d (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 5a8f82f9c5839389cf4036029dd75a9911049e83 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 04082b1833856cb9ed87e0d3d5f04cbf836cf7da (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < c037d6bde3dd5fa00b017b6b98a5389ec0ebc02f (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 5f270f091256da1338c3631083e15d7f83cc05e1 (git)
Affected: 0 , < 6.6.158 (semver)
Affected: 0 , < 6.12.112 (semver)
Affected: 0 , < 6.18.54 (semver)
Affected: 0 , < 7.2.8 (semver)
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Linux Linux Unaffected: 6.6.158 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.112 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.54 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.8 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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