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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-23205" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-02-14T16:27:28.409Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T16:04:10.175Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23205" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23205.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23205" title: "smb/client: fix memory leak in smb2_open_file()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb/client: fix memory leak in smb2_open_file()\n\nReproducer:\n\n 1. server: directories are exported read-only\n 2. client: mount -t cifs //${server_ip}/export /mnt\n 3. client: dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/file bs=512 count=1000 oflag=direct\n 4. client: umount /mnt\n 5. client: sleep 1\n 6. client: modprobe -r cifs\n\nThe error message is as follows:\n\n =============================================================================\n BUG cifs_small_rq (Not tainted): Objects remaining on __kmem_cache_shutdown()\n -----------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n Object 0x00000000d47521be @offset=14336\n ...\n WARNING: mm/slub.c:1251 at __kmem_cache_shutdown+0x34e/0x440, CPU#0: modprobe/1577\n ...\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n kmem_cache_destroy+0x94/0x190\n cifs_destroy_request_bufs+0x3e/0x50 [cifs]\n cleanup_module+0x4e/0x540 [cifs]\n __se_sys_delete_module+0x278/0x400\n __x64_sys_delete_module+0x5f/0x70\n x64_sys_call+0x2299/0x2ff0\n do_syscall_64+0x89/0x350\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n ...\n kmem_cache_destroy cifs_small_rq: Slab cache still has objects when called from cifs_destroy_request_bufs+0x3e/0x50 [cifs]\n WARNING: mm/slab_common.c:532 at kmem_cache_destroy+0x16b/0x190, CPU#0: modprobe/1577" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"17e53a15e64b65623b8f2b1185d27d7b1cbf69ab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"743f70406264348c0830f38409eb6c40a42fb2db"},{"version":"18066188eb90cc0c798f3370a8078a79ddb73f70","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3a6d6b332f92990958602c1e35ce0173e2dd62e9"},{"version":"6ebb9d54eccc8026b386e76eff69364d33373da5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b64e3b5d8d759dd4333992e4ba4dadf9359952c8"},{"version":"e255612b5ed9f179abe8196df7c2ba09dd227900","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9ee608a64e37cea5b4b13e436c559dd0fb2ad1b5"},{"version":"e255612b5ed9f179abe8196df7c2ba09dd227900","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e3a43633023e3cacaca60d4b8972d084a2b06236"},{"version":"bcd15f06c7e8904116cfb06526bcc189b86aff85","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.1.141","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.163"},{"version":"6.6.93","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.124"},{"version":"6.12.31","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.70"},{"version":"6.14.9","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"version":"6.1.163","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.124","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.70","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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