# 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-2026-90107"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:06:16.157Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:58:05.815Z"
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-2026-90107"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90107.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90107"
title: "net/smc: free pending qentry in smc_llc_flow_stop() before memset"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/smc: free pending qentry in smc_llc_flow_stop() before memset\n\nsmc_llc_flow_stop() resets a flow struct with a blind memset:\n\n\tspin_lock_bh(&lgr-\u003ellc_flow_lock);\n\tmemset(flow, 0, sizeof(*flow));\n\tflow-\u003etype = SMC_LLC_FLOW_NONE;\n\tspin_unlock_bh(&lgr-\u003ellc_flow_lock);\n\nIf flow-\u003eqentry is non-NULL at this point the pointer is overwritten without the\nallocation being freed, leaking one kmalloc object.\n\nA late-arriving duplicate CONFIRM_LINK or ADD_LINK_CONT message can set\nflow-\u003eqentry after the legitimate message has been consumed by the waiter via\nsmc_llc_flow_qentry_clr() (which NULLs the pointer but leaves flow-\u003etype\nnon-zero) but before the flow completes and smc_llc_flow_stop() runs.  In that\nwindow the duplicate is stashed into flow-\u003eqentry, and then lost when\nsmc_llc_flow_stop() zeros the struct.\n\nCall smc_llc_flow_qentry_del() inside the lock before the memset.\nsmc_llc_flow_qentry_del() already checks flow-\u003eqentry before freeing, so the\nnormal case where no entry is pending is a no-op."
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