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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64396"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:50:40.993Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:54:50.101Z"
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-2026-64396"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64396.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64396"
title: "ksmbd: fix UAF of struct file_lock in SMB2_LOCK deferred-lock cancellation"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: fix UAF of struct file_lock in SMB2_LOCK deferred-lock cancellation\n\nWhen a blocking byte-range lock request is deferred in the\nFILE_LOCK_DEFERRED path, ksmbd registers the asynchronous work into\nthe connection's async_requests list via setup_async_work(). The cancel\ncallback smb2_remove_blocked_lock() holds a reference to the flock.\n\nIf the lock waiter is subsequently woken up but the work state is no\nlonger KSMBD_WORK_ACTIVE (e.g., due to a concurrent cancellation), the\ncleanup path calls locks_free_lock(flock) without dequeuing the work from\nthe async_requests list. Concurrently, smb2_cancel() walks the list\nunder conn-\u003erequest_lock and invokes the cancel callback, which then\ndereferences the already freed 'flock'. This leads to a slab-use-after-free\ninside __wake_up_common.\n\nFix this by restructuring the cleanup logic after the worker returns\nfrom ksmbd_vfs_posix_lock_wait(). Move list_del(&smb_lock-\u003ellist) and\nrelease_async_work(work) to the top of the cleanup block. This guarantees\nthat the async work is completely dequeued and serialized under\nconn-\u003erequest_lock before locks_free_lock(flock) is called, rendering\nthe flock unreachable for any concurrent smb2_cancel()."
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