# 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-2026-74608"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:31:55.298Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:06:00.915Z"
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-2026-74608"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74608.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74608"
title: "smb: client: Fix use-after-free in cifs_try_adding_channels()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: Fix use-after-free in cifs_try_adding_channels()\n\ncifs_try_adding_channels() takes a temporary reference to an interface\nbefore dropping iface_lock. If cifs_ses_add_channel() fails, it drops\nthat reference and then increments iface-\u003eweight_fulfilled.\n\nA concurrent interface list refresh can remove the list reference while\nchannel creation is in progress. In that case, the failure-path\nkref_put() releases the last reference and frees iface. Updating\nweight_fulfilled afterward then accesses freed memory.\n\nIncrement weight_fulfilled before dropping the temporary reference,\nkeeping iface alive for the final access."
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