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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68381"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:03:59.849Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T21:09:06.923Z"
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-2026-68381"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68381.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68381"
title: "ksmbd: pin conn during async oplock break notification"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: pin conn during async oplock break notification\n\nsmb2_oplock_break_noti() and smb2_lease_break_noti() store a ksmbd_conn\npointer in an async ksmbd_work and then queue that work on ksmbd-io.  The\nwork only increments conn-\u003er_count, which prevents teardown from passing\nthe pending-request wait after the increment, but it does not pin the\nstruct ksmbd_conn object.\n\nIf connection teardown races with an oplock break notification, the last\nconn reference can be dropped before the queued worker finishes.  The\nworker then uses the freed conn in ksmbd_conn_write() and\nksmbd_conn_r_count_dec().\n\nTake a real conn reference when publishing the conn pointer to the async\nwork item, and drop it after the notification work has decremented\nr_count.  Apply the same lifetime rule to lease break notification, which\nuses the same work-\u003econn pattern."
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