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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89641"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:45:34.036Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:50:13.143Z"
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-2026-89641"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89641.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89641"
title: "cifs: clear tcon after cifsFileInfo_put() in cifs_file_set_size()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncifs: clear tcon after cifsFileInfo_put() in cifs_file_set_size()\n\nWhen the else branch of cifs_file_set_size() finds a writable file handle\nvia find_writable_file(), it borrows tcon and server from the handle's\ntlink, attempts the handle-based set_file_size() RPC, and then releases\nthe handle with cifsFileInfo_put().\n\nIf set_file_size() fails, execution falls through to the path-based\nfallback, which reuses the borrowed tcon and server under the\n\"if (tcon == NULL)\" guard.  Since tcon is not NULL at that point, the\nguard is skipped.  If cifsFileInfo_put() dropped the last reference on a\ntlink that was already removed from the tlink tree (TCON_LINK_IN_TREE\ncleared, as happens during reconnection or session teardown),\ncifs_put_tlink() will have freed tcon; the subsequent set_path_size()\ncall is then a use-after-free.\n\nSetting tcon = NULL after cifsFileInfo_put() causes the existing guard\nto take the cifs_sb_tlink() path, which acquires a fresh reference for\nthe path-based operation or fails cleanly if the session is gone."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"110fee6b9bb58a5c50047fc2594d415f741b591e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4f18c9e7ee464aaae5cd9fccdb943b3fcb4655d4"},{"version":"110fee6b9bb58a5c50047fc2594d415f741b591e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4bea15d9c7683218f57b8c1f5f0aa75cab76af8d"},{"version":"110fee6b9bb58a5c50047fc2594d415f741b591e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b96db32fed8dfb2478d7c208f89bf383beed1535"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18"},{"version":"6.18.50","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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