# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53271"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-25T08:39:56.489Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-25T08:39:56.489Z"
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-2026-53271"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53271.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53271"
title: "ksmbd: fix NULL-deref of opinfo-\u003econn in oplock/lease break notifiers"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: fix NULL-deref of opinfo-\u003econn in oplock/lease break notifiers\n\nsmb2_oplock_break_noti() and smb2_lease_break_noti() read opinfo-\u003econn\ninto a local with neither READ_ONCE() nor a NULL check.  Both run from\noplock_break() after opinfo_get_list() has dropped ci-\u003em_lock, so a\nconcurrent SMB2 LOGOFF (session_fd_check()) can set op-\u003econn = NULL\nunder ci-\u003em_lock within that window.  ksmbd_conn_r_count_inc(conn) then\nwrites through NULL at offset 0xc4 -- a remotely triggerable oops.\n\nGuard both reads the way compare_guid_key() already does: read\nopinfo-\u003econn with READ_ONCE() and return early if it is NULL, before\nallocating the work struct so nothing leaks.  A NULL conn means the\nclient is gone and the break is moot, so return 0; oplock_break() treats\nthat as success and runs the normal teardown."
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