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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64541" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-27T20:10:34.439Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:48:39.587Z" 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-2026-64541" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64541.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64541" title: "net/smc: fix UAF in smc_cdc_rx_handler() by pinning the socket" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/smc: fix UAF in smc_cdc_rx_handler() by pinning the socket\n\nsmc_cdc_rx_handler() looks up the connection by token under the link\ngroup's conns_lock, drops the lock, and then dereferences conn and the\nsmc_sock derived from it, ending in sock_hold(&smc-\u003esk) inside\nsmc_cdc_msg_recv(). No reference is held across the lock release.\n\nThe only reference pinning the socket while the connection is\ndiscoverable in the link group is taken in smc_lgr_register_conn()\n(sock_hold) and dropped in __smc_lgr_unregister_conn() (sock_put), both\nunder conns_lock. Once the handler drops conns_lock, a concurrent\nclose() -\u003e smc_release() -\u003e smc_conn_free() -\u003e smc_lgr_unregister_conn()\ncan drop that reference and free the smc_sock, so the handler's later\nsock_hold() runs on freed memory:\n\n WARNING: lib/refcount.c:25 at refcount_warn_saturate\n Workqueue: rxe_wq do_work\n refcount_warn_saturate (lib/refcount.c:25)\n smc_cdc_msg_recv (net/smc/smc_cdc.c:430)\n smc_cdc_rx_handler (net/smc/smc_cdc.c:502)\n smc_wr_rx_tasklet_fn (net/smc/smc_wr.c:445)\n tasklet_action_common (kernel/softirq.c:938)\n handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:622)\n Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set\n\nOnly SMC-R is affected. The SMC-D receive tasklet is stopped by\ntasklet_kill(&conn-\u003erx_tsklet) in smc_conn_free() before the connection\nis unregistered, so it cannot run concurrently with the free.\n\nTake the socket reference while still holding conns_lock, so the\nregistration reference can no longer be the last one, and drop it once\nthe handler is done." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d7b0e37c1ac152905b18a5b9506179091a35b0b6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8de4f665d0febfb92803dece377791a563fc7041"},{"version":"d7b0e37c1ac152905b18a5b9506179091a35b0b6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8145b432136285e01091815b48ceb2dae261f262"},{"version":"d7b0e37c1ac152905b18a5b9506179091a35b0b6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1951bffbc6493ec34cff3956b29d4bc6606904a6"},{"version":"d7b0e37c1ac152905b18a5b9506179091a35b0b6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"647b19e5cc145a2f1f685ae8ff3805a17356888c"},{"version":"d7b0e37c1ac152905b18a5b9506179091a35b0b6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"472e9d7c0d5b03be3ff91ff941f57da822b031bc"},{"version":"d7b0e37c1ac152905b18a5b9506179091a35b0b6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3bfb96d9bc6a7ed0b99c7db329cc2e22a28d84bb"},{"version":"d7b0e37c1ac152905b18a5b9506179091a35b0b6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ce5aa8084329351086894aa34d77e40301d5bd3d"},{"version":"d7b0e37c1ac152905b18a5b9506179091a35b0b6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9d160b35cc34a2ba8229d07651468a7848325135"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.18"},{"version":"5.10.261","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.97","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","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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