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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74348" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:58:35.977Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:17:41.148Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z" 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-2026-74348" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74348.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74348" title: "ocfs2/dlm: require a ref for locking_state debugfs open" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nocfs2/dlm: require a ref for locking_state debugfs open\n\ndebug_lockres_open() copies inode-\u003ei_private into struct debug_lockres and\ndebug_lockres_release() later drops that pointer with dlm_put(). That\nonly works if open successfully pins the struct dlm_ctxt.\n\nToday open calls dlm_grab(dlm) but ignores its return value. Once the\nlast domain unregister has removed the context from dlm_domains,\ndlm_grab() returns NULL, yet open still stores the raw pointer and returns\nsuccess. The later release path is outside the debugfs removal barrier,\nso it can call dlm_put() after dlm_free_ctxt_mem() has freed the context. \nKASAN reports this as a slab-use-after-free in dlm_put() called from\ndebug_lockres_release().\n\nFail the open when dlm_grab() cannot acquire the reference and unwind the\nseq_file private state before returning. That keeps locking_state from\nhanding out a file descriptor whose release path does not own the\ndlm_ctxt.\n\nThe buggy scenario involves two paths, with each column showing the order\nwithin that path:\n\nlocking_state debugfs open: last domain unregister:\n1. debug_lockres_open() reads 1. dlm_unregister_domain() calls\n inode-\u003ei_private. dlm_complete_dlm_shutdown().\n2. debug_lockres_open() calls 2. shutdown removes the dlm_ctxt from\n dlm_grab(dlm) and gets NULL. dlm_domains.\n3. open still stores the raw dlm 3. final teardown reaches\n pointer in dl-\u003edl_ctxt and dlm_free_ctxt_mem() and frees it.\n returns success.\n4. debug_lockres_release() later\n calls dlm_put(dl-\u003edl_ctxt).\n\nValidation reproduced this kernel report:\nKASAN slab-use-after-free in dlm_put+0x82/0x200\nRIP: 0033:0x7f4d349bc9e0\nThe buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888103a3c000 which belongs\nto the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048\nThe buggy address is located 816 bytes inside of freed 2048-byte region\n[ffff888103a3c000, ffff888103a3c800)\nWrite of size 4\nCall trace:\n dump_stack_lvl+0x66/0xa0 (?:?)\n print_report+0xd0/0x630 (?:?)\n dlm_put+0x82/0x200 (?:?)\n srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 (?:?)\n __virt_addr_valid+0x188/0x2f0 (?:?)\n kasan_report+0xe4/0x120 (?:?)\n kasan_check_range+0x105/0x1b0 (?:?)\n debug_lockres_release+0x53/0x80 (fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdebug.c:587)\n dlm_put+0x9/0x200 (?:?)\n debug_lockres_release+0x5c/0x80 (fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdebug.c:587)\n full_proxy_release+0x67/0x90 (?:?)\n __fput+0x1df/0x4b0 (?:?)\n do_raw_spin_lock+0x10f/0x1b0 (?:?)\n fput_close_sync+0xd2/0x170 (?:?)\n __x64_sys_close+0x55/0x90 (?:?)\n do_syscall_64+0x10c/0x640 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:87)\n irqentry_exit+0xac/0x6e0 (?:?)\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f (?:?)\nFreed by task stack:\n kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 (?:?)\n kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 (?:?)\n kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60 (?:?)\n __kasan_slab_free+0x5f/0x80 (?:?)\n kfree+0x30f/0x580 (?:?)\n dlm_put+0x1ce/0x200 (?:?)\n dlm_unregister_domain+0xf6/0xb30 (?:?)\n o2cb_cluster_disconnect+0x6b/0x90 (?:?)\n ocfs2_cluster_disconnect+0x41/0x70 (?:?)\n ocfs2_dlm_shutdown+0x1c4/0x220 (?:?)\n ocfs2_dismount_volume+0x38a/0x550 (?:?)\n generic_shutdown_super+0xc3/0x220 (?:?)\n kill_block_super+0x29/0x60 (?:?)\n deactivate_locked_super+0x66/0xe0 (?:?)\n cleanup_mnt+0x13d/0x210 (?:?)\n task_work_run+0xfa/0x170 (?:?)\n exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xd6/0x430 (?:?)\n do_syscall_64+0x3cb/0x640 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:87)\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f (?:?)" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4e3d24ed1a1285fe3289653aacc965642706bacb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6cc93dea4078cbcddee63fa2234e382a76600464"},{"version":"4e3d24ed1a1285fe3289653aacc965642706bacb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"90a6512425414098a63fc97b77bed089c75d106b"},{"version":"4e3d24ed1a1285fe3289653aacc965642706bacb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5bee5d5f67aedd26d2b72e00e49dd93331fbcc30"},{"version":"4e3d24ed1a1285fe3289653aacc965642706bacb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aa7883b6a3c76301a3299deb34de948e73bb6a08"},{"version":"4e3d24ed1a1285fe3289653aacc965642706bacb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9c81c1a61a52b6ecf0d14f1dbd95f154a7a9e92a"},{"version":"4e3d24ed1a1285fe3289653aacc965642706bacb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a087b2d3411e7f9df71ba3293596923ee2c70d65"},{"version":"4e3d24ed1a1285fe3289653aacc965642706bacb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a09831214912a1f270663d935613910fafd8d883"},{"version":"4e3d24ed1a1285fe3289653aacc965642706bacb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"03ad858ce8064861ea580021976dc19b7aabb549"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.26","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.26"},{"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"}] ## 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