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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98870"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T11:37:07.113Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T11:37:07.113Z"
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-2026-98870"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98870.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98870"
title: "ksmbd: remove stale channels from all sessions on teardown"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: remove stale channels from all sessions on teardown\n\nksmbd_sessions_deregister() removes a connection's channels from other\nsessions' channel lists only while conn-\u003ebinding is still set:\n\n\tif (conn-\u003ebinding) {\n\t\thash_for_each_safe(sessions_table, ...)\n\t\t\tksmbd_chann_del(conn, sess);\n\t}\n\nconn-\u003ebinding is a transient flag: it is cleared once a binding\nSESSION_SETUP completes, and also by a subsequent non-binding\nSESSION_SETUP on the same connection (a reauthentication on a bound\nchannel, or a new SessionId==0 setup). A connection that has bound a\nchannel into another session's ksmbd_chann_list and then clears\nconn-\u003ebinding leaves that channel behind when it disconnects: the\nchannel, whose chann-\u003econn points at the now freed struct ksmbd_conn,\nstays on the owner session's list.\n\nWhen the owning connection later tears down, the second loop\ndereferences the stale channel:\n\n\txa_for_each(&sess-\u003eksmbd_chann_list, chann_id, chann)\n\t\tif (chann-\u003econn != conn)\n\t\t\tksmbd_conn_set_exiting(chann-\u003econn);   /* freed */\n\nwhich is a use-after-free write into the freed ksmbd_conn (the same\nstale channel is also walked by show_proc_session() through /proc). The\nsession is leaked as well, because its channel list never empties.\n\nRemove the conn-\u003ebinding gate so a connection always removes its\nchannels from every session on teardown."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b1b6ed903a6e2b3505a48706bcd499b447ef9e44","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f8200bb4994e65a2e5c5b314789eeae39078619d"},{"version":"47b018dba6ec7ebf403fd2d1e713bc7acc9bbb23","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9cd6d714d3ca0cff296542dc989696884e41970f"},{"version":"9ef4dfd5edbd02f4bf10cd420a30896093d98a67","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b145f9b56c87f9c23ad5464ab0844dbc1de12b36"},{"version":"5a5b0b7a01fe19b383b3c046546b5ae30c1a7d71","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a15cae16f4432a5ad919ee633e31b07178492955"},{"version":"faf8578c77f3d846aca9cd882c293e03eafcc6df","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b10665730fbf6b5e45fe422badcbbc3f0df96ef5"},{"version":"e632f21a8bc0c59abc4960482836ac3782db93c0","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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