# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31610"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-24T14:42:31.471Z"
updatedAt: "2026-07-24T14:33:31.688Z"
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-2026-31610"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31610.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31610"
title: "ksmbd: fix mechToken leak when SPNEGO decode fails after token alloc"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: fix mechToken leak when SPNEGO decode fails after token alloc\n\nThe kernel ASN.1 BER decoder calls action callbacks incrementally as it\nwalks the input.  When ksmbd_decode_negTokenInit() reaches the mechToken\n[2] OCTET STRING element, ksmbd_neg_token_alloc() allocates\nconn-\u003emechToken immediately via kmemdup_nul().  If a later element in\nthe same blob is malformed, then the decoder will return nonzero after\nthe allocation is already live.  This could happen if mechListMIC [3]\noverrunse the enclosing SEQUENCE.\n\ndecode_negotiation_token() then sets conn-\u003euse_spnego = false because\nboth the negTokenInit and negTokenTarg grammars failed.  The cleanup at\nthe bottom of smb2_sess_setup() is gated on use_spnego:\n\n\tif (conn-\u003euse_spnego && conn-\u003emechToken) {\n\t\tkfree(conn-\u003emechToken);\n\t\tconn-\u003emechToken = NULL;\n\t}\n\nso the kfree is skipped, causing the mechToken to never be freed.\n\nThis codepath is reachable pre-authentication, so untrusted clients can\ncause slow memory leaks on a server without even being properly\nauthenticated.\n\nFix this up by not checking check for use_spnego, as it's not required,\nso the memory will always be properly freed.  At the same time, always\nfree the memory in ksmbd_conn_free() incase some other failure path\nforgot to free it."
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