# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80928"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:42:04.044Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:45:12.134Z"
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-2026-80928"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80928.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80928"
title: "smack: fix cred UAF in smack_file_send_sigiotask()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmack: fix cred UAF in smack_file_send_sigiotask()\n\nWhen inspecting the credentials of another task, objective credentials\n(-\u003ereal_cred, accessed with __task_cred()) must always be used.\n\nAccessing -\u003ecred on a non-current task is forbidden unless that task is\nbeing created or destroyed; a task is allowed to change its own -\u003ecred\npointer with no synchronization, and changing -\u003ecred should only affect the\ncurrent syscall.\n\nsmack_file_send_sigiotask() was accessing both sets of credentials: First\ntsk-\u003ecred, then __task_cred(tsk).\n\nFix it, always access the objective credentials here.\n\nI have tested that this bug can lead to a KASAN-reported UAF of struct cred\nin smack_file_send_sigiotask(), and that this fix prevents the race."
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