CVE-2026-45972

CRITICAL

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: client: fix potential UAF and double free in smb2_open_file()

Zero out @err_iov and @err_buftype before retrying SMB2_open() to
prevent an UAF bug if @data != NULL, otherwise a double free.

CVSS v3 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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External references

• NIST NVD
• MITRE CVE