# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98261"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:45:25.361Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:16:32.334Z"
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-2026-98261"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98261.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98261"
title: "cifs: Fix server use-after-free in cifs_chan_skip_or_disable()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncifs: Fix server use-after-free in cifs_chan_skip_or_disable()\n\nWhen a secondary channel is no longer supported by the server,\ncifs_chan_skip_or_disable() drops the channel reference with\ncifs_put_tcp_session() and then continues to use the server pointer by\ncalling cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect() on it and reading its\nprimary_server pointer. cifs_put_tcp_session() can drop the last\nreference of the channel and tear it down, so both the channel and the\nprimary server (whose reference is also dropped by\ncifs_put_tcp_session()) can be freed before they are signaled for\nreconnect.\n\nSignal the channel and the primary server and capture the primary\nserver pointer before dropping the channel reference with\ncifs_put_tcp_session()."
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