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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-90125" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:06:27.924Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:58:23.526Z" 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-2026-90125" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90125.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90125" title: "smb: client: fix request buffer leak in smb2_new_read_req()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: fix request buffer leak in smb2_new_read_req()\n\nsmb2_new_read_req() allocates the request buffer with\nsmb2_plain_req_init() but only publishes it to the caller with\n*buf = req at the very end of the function. Two error returns sit in\nbetween:\n\n\trc = smb2_plain_req_init(SMB2_READ, io_parms-\u003etcon, server,\n\t\t\t\t (void **) &req, total_len);\n\tif (rc)\n\t\treturn rc;\n\n\tif (server == NULL)\n\t\treturn -ECONNABORTED;\n\t[...]\n\t\trdata-\u003emr = smbd_register_mr(server-\u003esmbd_conn,\n\t\t\t\t\t &rdata-\u003esubreq.io_iter,\n\t\t\t\t\t true, need_invalidate);\n\t\tif (!rdata-\u003emr)\n\t\t\treturn -EAGAIN;\n\nOn either of them the buffer is neither released nor handed back, so\nit is leaked. The caller cannot clean up after it: smb2_async_readv()\ndoes 'goto out' on a non-zero return, which skips the\ncifs_small_buf_release(buf) at async_readv_out, and buf has not been\nassigned at that point in any case.\n\nThe write path has never had this problem. smb2_async_writev()\nregisters the memory region inline and jumps to its release label\ninstead of returning:\n\n\twdata-\u003emr = smbd_register_mr(...);\n\tif (!wdata-\u003emr) {\n\t\trc = -EAGAIN;\n\t\tgoto async_writev_out;\n\t}\n\nCommit b7972092199f (\"cifs: smbd: Retry on memory registration\nfailure\") changed both sides from -ENOBUFS to -EAGAIN in a single\npatch, which puts the two shapes next to each other.\n\nOnly the -EAGAIN return is reachable in practice, because\nsmb2_plain_req_init() calls smb2_reconnect() first and that already\nfails with -EIO when server is NULL, before anything is allocated.\nBoth returns are given the same treatment here rather than leaving\none of them correct only by accident.\n\nBecause -EAGAIN is a replayable error, the failure also reaches the\nretry block at the end of smb2_async_readv(), which marks the\nsubrequest NETFS_SREQ_NEED_RETRY, so a failing registration can be\nretried rather than ending the I/O, and every attempt that reaches it\nleaks another buffer. smb2_should_replay() short-circuits on\ntcon-\u003eretry, so on a hard mount the attempt count is not bounded by\nthe retrans setting.\n\nOnly the asynchronous read path is affected. The synchronous\nSMB2_read() caller passes rdata == NULL and the memory registration\nblock is guarded on rdata.\n\nThe memory registration failure path was pointed out by the Sashiko\nAI reviewer while it was reviewing an unrelated patch to\nsmb2_async_readv()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"bd3dcc6a22a9186ed78da51ce09e889803552189","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"58066940076b90c16e821fd6f9767cd979cbdb5e"},{"version":"bd3dcc6a22a9186ed78da51ce09e889803552189","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"12092ed28434bf41e08d41e3c5269eb6b337fc02"},{"version":"bd3dcc6a22a9186ed78da51ce09e889803552189","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"442c5f1358ced0d4e716778ac06f1e323a7e4f21"},{"version":"bd3dcc6a22a9186ed78da51ce09e889803552189","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"73f6bdb0380486ab37fe12cd74de20abfaf5d3ae"},{"version":"bd3dcc6a22a9186ed78da51ce09e889803552189","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"deb6468f4164640e4dc875f008aa449cf55987a5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.16"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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