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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64141"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T15:40:33.890Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:39:41.570Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-64141"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64141.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64141"
title: "ksmbd: fix null pointer dereference in compare_guid_key()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: fix null pointer dereference in compare_guid_key()\n\nsession_fd_check() walks the per-inode m_op_list during durable-handle\nsession teardown and sets op-\u003econn = NULL for every opinfo whose conn\nmatched the closing session's connection. The matching opinfo, however,\nstays linked in its per-ClientGuid lease_table_list entry's lb-\u003elease_list\nbecause destroy_lease_table() only runs on full TCP-connection teardown,\nnot on SESSION_LOGOFF.\n\nIf the same TCP connection then negotiates a fresh session with the\nsame ClientGuid (ClientGuid is bound to NEGOTIATE, not the session, and\nis unchanged across LOGOFF + SETUP) and issues a SMB2 CREATE with a\nlease context on a different inode, find_same_lease_key() walks\nlb-\u003elease_list, reaches the stale opinfo, and calls compare_guid_key(),\nwhich unconditionally dereferences opinfo-\u003econn-\u003eClientGUID. The conn\npointer is NULL and the kernel panics.\n\nReproducer requires only a successful SMB2 SESSION_SETUP and a share\nconfigured with 'durable handles = yes'. KASAN report on mainline\n70390501d194:\n\n  general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address\n  0xdffffc0000000069: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI\n  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000348-0x000000000000034f]\n  Workqueue: ksmbd-io handle_ksmbd_work\n  RIP: 0010:bcmp+0x5b/0x230\n  Call Trace:\n   compare_guid_key+0x4b/0xd0\n   find_same_lease_key+0x324/0x690\n   smb2_open+0x6aea/0x8e60\n   handle_ksmbd_work+0x796/0xee0\n   ...\n\nFaulting address 0x348 is the offset of ClientGUID within struct\nksmbd_conn, confirming opinfo-\u003econn was NULL.\n\nRead opinfo-\u003econn once and bail out if it has been cleared by a\nconcurrent session_fd_check(). A half-detached opinfo cannot be the\nowner of an active lease, so returning 0 is the correct match result."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8df4bcdb0a4232192b2445256c39b787d58ef14d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e43cb36d4d7827710cfcd48e95e29a507f0d87be"},{"version":"c8efcc786146a951091588e5fa7e3c754850cb3c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0836081b394ca074d1b910f2b990ff7b4b4404c7"},{"version":"c8efcc786146a951091588e5fa7e3c754850cb3c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cd5c1b75d2f454f625d7dc55bd3ae21d0855f6ad"},{"version":"c8efcc786146a951091588e5fa7e3c754850cb3c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"af86896ca3239e25a6bd7d352213371265073d38"},{"version":"c8efcc786146a951091588e5fa7e3c754850cb3c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4b83cbc4c15f09b000cc06f033f64b0824b6dc87"},{"version":"6.6.32","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.142"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"},{"version":"6.6.142","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.92","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.34","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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