# 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-2026-98453"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:15:03.262Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:55:07.969Z"
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-2026-98453"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98453.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98453"
title: "smb: client: close handle after create-context parsing failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: close handle after create-context parsing failure\n\nSMB2_open() accounts a successful CREATE response as a remote open before\nparsing its create contexts.  If smb2_parse_contexts() rejects malformed\ncontext data, SMB2_open() returns without closing the handle, leaving the\nserver-side handle open and num_remote_opens elevated.\n\nClose the handle after a post-CREATE context parsing failure so the error\npath releases the remote resource and balances the open count."
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