# 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-2026-80982"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:42:42.243Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:46:06.717Z"
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-2026-80982"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80982.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80982"
title: "net/smc: fix use-after-free in smc_rx_pipe_buf_release()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/smc: fix use-after-free in smc_rx_pipe_buf_release()\n\nsmc_rx_splice() hands RMB pages to a pipe and takes a socket reference\nper entry so the smc_sock stays alive until the reader finishes. The\nconnection does not: a concurrent close runs smc_conn_free(), which\nreleases the receive buffer back to the link group pool.\n\nsmc_rx_pipe_buf_release() tests sk_state before taking the socket lock.\nThe state can change between the test and the lock, and\nsmc_rx_update_cons() then dereferences conn-\u003ermb_desc and walks\nconn-\u003elgr, which smc_conn_free() has already released. On the\nis_reg_err path smcr_buf_unuse() frees the descriptor outright, so\nthis is a use-after-free.\n\nTake the socket lock first and test conn-\u003efreed instead.\nsmc_conn_free() sets that flag before releasing anything, and every\ncaller holds the socket lock. The two paths exclude each other: either\nthe pipe release runs first with everything valid, or it sees the flag\nand skips the update."
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