# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64426"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:51:03.867Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:55:26.542Z"
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-2026-64426"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64426.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64426"
title: "io_uring/nop: fix file reference leak with IOSQE_FIXED_FILE"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nio_uring/nop: fix file reference leak with IOSQE_FIXED_FILE\n\nNOP file-acquisition support choses between a fixed (registered) file and\na normal fget()'d file based on its own IORING_NOP_FIXED_FILE flag in\nsqe-\u003enop_flags. However, a request's REQ_F_FIXED_FILE is set\nindependently from the generic IOSQE_FIXED_FILE sqe flag during request\ninit, before the issue handler runs.\n\nIf a NOP is submitted with IOSQE_FIXED_FILE set (so REQ_F_FIXED_FILE is\nset) but without IORING_NOP_FIXED_FILE, io_nop() takes the normal path\nand grabs a real reference via io_file_get_normal(). On completion,\nio_put_file() only drops the reference when REQ_F_FIXED_FILE is clear,\nso the fget()'d file is never released and leaks:\n\n  BUG: memory leak\n  unreferenced object 0xffff88800f42c240 (size 176):\n    kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x358/0x440\n    alloc_empty_file+0x57/0x180\n    path_openat+0x44/0x1e50\n    do_file_open+0x121/0x200\n    do_sys_openat2+0xa7/0x150\n    __x64_sys_openat+0x82/0xf0\n\nDecide between fixed and normal file acquisition from REQ_F_FIXED_FILE,\nthe same way io_assign_file() does for every other opcode, and fold\nIORING_NOP_FIXED_FILE into REQ_F_FIXED_FILE at prep time."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a85f31052bce52111b4e9d5a536003481d0421d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"722869fcff598fad20d5ab79c305897a7534708b"},{"version":"a85f31052bce52111b4e9d5a536003481d0421d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7267717f35787167fcce4bc14f6ef3fa06682dcf"},{"version":"a85f31052bce52111b4e9d5a536003481d0421d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2564ca2e31bd8ee8348362941af2ee4671e487ca"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.13"},{"version":"6.18.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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