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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-97583"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:22:03.666Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:09:46.971Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-97583"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97583.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97583"
title: "afs: Clear stale peer app data after address list changes"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nafs: Clear stale peer app data after address list changes\n\nafs_fs_probe_fileserver() fetches the current endpoint state under\nserver-\u003efs_lock, but leaves old_alist as NULL.  Consequently,\nafs_set_peer_appdata() treats every address list replacement as initial\nsetup and only binds the new peers; it never unbinds peers removed from\nthe old list.\n\nAn address refresh can therefore proceed as follows.  CPU 0 replaces\nserver S's list and drops Pold without clearing Pold-\u003eapp_data.  The\nserver destroyer then clears only S's current peers and lets S reach its\nRCU callback.  After the callback frees S, CPU 1 handles a callback\nthrough an RxRPC connection that still pins Pold, reads Pold-\u003eapp_data,\nand calls afs_use_server() on the freed object.\n\nKASAN reported:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in afs_find_server+0x3c/0xa0\n  Read of size 4 at addr ffff8881013e1af0 by task krxrpcio/7001/74\n  Call Trace:\n   afs_find_server+0x3c/0xa0\n   afs_rx_new_call+0x15c/0x390\n   rxrpc_new_incoming_call+0x97c/0x1730\n   rxrpc_input_packet.constprop.0+0xd03/0xec0\n   rxrpc_io_thread+0x967/0x1640\n  Allocated by task 93:\n   afs_lookup_server+0x1a7/0x14c0\n   afs_alloc_server_list+0x43f/0xb60\n   afs_create_volume+0x923/0x1490\n   afs_get_tree+0x1c6/0x10a0\n  Freed by task 0:\n   kfree+0x131/0x3c0\n   rcu_core+0x50a/0x1850\n  Last potentially related work creation:\n   __call_rcu_common.constprop.0+0x71/0xa10\n   afs_put_server+0x213/0x2b0\n\nPreserve old-\u003eaddresses for the peer app-data update so that removed\npeers are cleared before the endpoint state is replaced.  Also advance\nboth cursors when the old and new lists share a peer; activating the\nold/new comparison without this would otherwise loop forever on the\nshared entry."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"39ba6af83a7f9dee3e6a7916f41a48bcbda54eba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3afb988fd0411707bdafb9b321086fff0da28aae"},{"version":"40e8b52fe8c8ab6920ea5f59c5469b6918cce624","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c7f77a11a1e719192c7262aad38a3919aec62c21"},{"version":"40e8b52fe8c8ab6920ea5f59c5469b6918cce624","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7f7f5589d048821dea316cbac9b37d27eaf7530e"},{"version":"40e8b52fe8c8ab6920ea5f59c5469b6918cce624","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba0623fc19a424f4745394c499f9f28a8d88d397"},{"version":"6.12.101","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.111"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","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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