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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-53198" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-25T08:39:07.650Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:22:39.317Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z" 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-2026-53198" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53198.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53198" title: "ksmbd: fix use-after-free of a deferred file_lock on double SMB2_CANCEL" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: fix use-after-free of a deferred file_lock on double SMB2_CANCEL\n\nA deferred byte-range lock (an SMB2_LOCK that blocks) registers an async work on\nconn-\u003easync_requests via setup_async_work(), with cancel_fn =\nsmb2_remove_blocked_lock and cancel_argv[0] pointing at the struct file_lock.\n\nWhen the request is cancelled, the worker frees the file_lock with\nlocks_free_lock() and takes the cancelled early-exit, which \"goto out\"s and never\nreaches release_async_work() -- the only site that unlinks the work from\nconn-\u003easync_requests and clears cancel_fn/cancel_argv. The work therefore stays\nmatchable on async_requests with a live cancel_fn pointing at the freed file_lock,\nuntil connection teardown finally runs release_async_work().\n\nsmb2_cancel() fires cancel_fn unconditionally with no state guard, so a second\nSMB2_CANCEL for the same AsyncId, arriving in that window, re-runs\nsmb2_remove_blocked_lock() on the freed file_lock -- a slab use-after-free:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __locks_delete_block\n __locks_delete_block\n locks_delete_block\n ksmbd_vfs_posix_lock_unblock\n smb2_remove_blocked_lock\n smb2_cancel \u003c- 2nd SMB2_CANCEL fires cancel_fn\n handle_ksmbd_work\n Allocated by ...: locks_alloc_lock \u003c- smb2_lock\n Freed by ...: locks_free_lock \u003c- smb2_lock (cancelled branch)\n ... cache file_lock_cache of size 192\n\nReproduced on mainline with KASAN by an authenticated SMB client.\n\nSkip a work whose state is already KSMBD_WORK_CANCELLED so its cancel callback\ncannot be fired a second time." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b7063c7426ea5a4d15e01b60538718765392f49d"},{"version":"e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0da2e073f9cbf4985a0fd9acb71bc5ff599f8afd"},{"version":"e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"89ae9df09d2c1fb4a4eb495c113a7ce1dca34147"},{"version":"e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"14d2eee0193ac3cd1bf3d014373449f0b8d35d6d"},{"version":"e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2b2eda2821cff1d1b5a423b6ee7d8fc6fbc8e694"},{"version":"e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f580d27e8928828693df44ba2db0fffdbe11dfea"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"6.1.176","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.143","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.94","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.36","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","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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