# 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-2026-68156"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:59:22.514Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:58:54.796Z"
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-2026-68156"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68156.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68156"
title: "libceph: refresh auth-\u003eauthorizer_buf{,_len} after authorizer update"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nlibceph: refresh auth-\u003eauthorizer_buf{,_len} after authorizer update\n\nceph_x_create_authorizer() caches au-\u003ebuf-\u003evec.iov_base and\nau-\u003ebuf-\u003evec.iov_len in struct ceph_auth_handshake.  These\ncached values are then used by the messenger connect code when\nsending the authorizer.\n\nceph_x_update_authorizer() can rebuild the authorizer when a newer\nservice ticket is available.  If the rebuilt authorizer no longer\nfits in the existing buffer, ceph_x_build_authorizer() drops its\nreference to au-\u003ebuf and allocates a new one.  If this is the final\nreference, ceph_buffer_put() frees the old ceph_buffer and its\nvec.iov_base, but auth-\u003eauthorizer_buf still points at that freed\nmemory.\n\nA subsequent msgr1 reconnect can therefore queue the stale pointer\nand trigger a KASAN slab-use-after-free in _copy_from_iter() while\ntcp_sendmsg() copies the authorizer.\n\nRefresh auth-\u003eauthorizer_buf and auth-\u003eauthorizer_buf_len after a\nsuccessful authorizer rebuild so the messenger sends the current\nbuffer."
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