# 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-2026-72492"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:57:26.967Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:44:53.329Z"
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-2026-72492"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72492.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72492"
title: "ksmbd: fix use-after-free in same_client_has_lease()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: fix use-after-free in same_client_has_lease()\n\nsame_client_has_lease() returns an opinfo pointer from ci-\u003em_op_list\nafter dropping ci-\u003em_lock without taking a reference.\n\nsmb_grant_oplock() then dereferences that pointer in copy_lease() and\nwhen checking breaking_cnt. A concurrent close can remove the old lease\nfrom ci-\u003em_op_list and drop the last reference before the caller uses\nthe returned pointer, leading to a use-after-free.\n\nTake a reference when same_client_has_lease() selects an existing lease,\ndrop any previous match while scanning, and release the returned\nreference in smb_grant_oplock() after copying the lease state."
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