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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89637"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:45:31.048Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:50:09.230Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-89637"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89637.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89637"
title: "smb: client: fix UAF and buffer leak in cifs_check_trans2() for malformed secondary T2"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: fix UAF and buffer leak in cifs_check_trans2() for malformed secondary T2\n\nWhen a valid primary TRANSACT2 response has been received (mid-\u003eresp_buf\nset, mid-\u003emultiRsp true) and a subsequent secondary response causes\ncifs_check_trans2() to return false -- either because the SMB header is\ninvalid (malformed != 0) or because check2ndT2() rejects the PDU --\nhandle_mid() overwrites mid-\u003eresp_buf with the new buffer (leaking the\nprimary buffer) and, because mid-\u003emultiRsp is set, skips the\nserver-\u003esmallbuf/bigbuf NULL-out.  When the user thread frees\nmid-\u003eresp_buf, server-\u003esmallbuf or server-\u003ebigbuf is left dangling; the\ndemux thread reuses it for the next packet, resulting in a use-after-free.\n\nCombine both early-exit conditions and, when mid-\u003emultiRsp is already\nset, abort the pending transaction inline: set multiEnd, call\ndequeue_mid() with malformed=true, and return true so handle_mid() exits\nwithout touching mid-\u003eresp_buf or the server buffer pointers."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"316cf94a910f6f93d43cc574359d163ccae098a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9eed72e9534b10a6d9f8f5146feff3db53aebdba"},{"version":"316cf94a910f6f93d43cc574359d163ccae098a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5e6533a683f6a851158d9f33fb4ea8f4f25d7f84"},{"version":"316cf94a910f6f93d43cc574359d163ccae098a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"730d0bb19507b9e19c2fe5343109ac618e2fbce5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.6"},{"version":"6.18.51","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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