CVE 9.8 CRITICAL

ksmbd: fix use-after-free of share_conf in compound request_CVE-2026-23428

9.8 / 10
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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

ksmbd: fix use-after-free of share_conf in compound request

smb2_get_ksmbd_tcon() reuses work->tcon in compound requests without
validating tcon->t_state. ksmbd_tree_conn_lookup() checks t_state ==
TREE_CONNECTED on the initial lookup path, but the compound reuse path
bypasses this check entirely.

If a prior command in the compound (SMB2_TREE_DISCONNECT) sets t_state
to TREE_DISCONNECTED and frees share_conf via ksmbd_share_config_put(),
subsequent commands dereference the freed share_conf through
work->tcon->share_conf.

KASAN report:

[ 4.144653] ==================================================================
[ 4.145059] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in smb2_write+0xc74/0xe70
[ 4.145415] Read of size 4 at addr ffff88810430c194 by task kworker/1:1/44
[ 4.145772]
[ 4.145867] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 44 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 7.0.0-rc3+ #60 PREEMPTLAZY
[ 4.145871] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC v2 (i440FX + PIIX, arch_caps fix, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[ 4.145875] Workqueue: ksmbd-io handle_ksmbd_work
[ 4.145888] Call Trace:
[ 4.145892] <TASK>
[ 4.145894] dump_stack_lvl+0x64/0x80
[ 4.145910] print_report+0xce/0x660
[ 4.145919] ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10
[ 4.145928] ? smb2_write+0xc74/0xe70
[ 4.145931] kasan_report+0xce/0x100
[ 4.145934] ? smb2_write+0xc74/0xe70
[ 4.145937] smb2_write+0xc74/0xe70
[ 4.145939] ? __pfx_smb2_write+0x10/0x10
[ 4.145942] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0xe/0x30
[ 4.145945] ? ksmbd_smb2_check_message+0xeb2/0x24c0
[ 4.145948] ? smb2_tree_disconnect+0x31c/0x480
[ 4.145951] handle_ksmbd_work+0x40f/0x1080
[ 4.145953] process_one_work+0x5fa/0xef0
[ 4.145962] ? assign_work+0x122/0x3e0
[ 4.145964] worker_thread+0x54b/0xf70
[ 4.145967] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
[ 4.145970] kthread+0x346/0x470
[ 4.145976] ? recalc_sigpending+0x19b/0x230
[ 4.145980] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 4.145984] ret_from_fork+0x4fb/0x6c0
[ 4.145992] ? __pfx_ret_from_fork+0x10/0x10
[ 4.145995] ? __switch_to+0x36c/0xbe0
[ 4.145999] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 4.146003] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[ 4.146013] </TASK>
[ 4.146014]
[ 4.149858] Allocated by task 44:
[ 4.149953] kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
[ 4.150061] kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
[ 4.150169] __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0
[ 4.150274] ksmbd_share_config_get+0x1dd/0xdd0
[ 4.150401] ksmbd_tree_conn_connect+0x7e/0x600
[ 4.150529] smb2_tree_connect+0x2e6/0x1000
[ 4.150645] handle_ksmbd_work+0x40f/0x1080
[ 4.150761] process_one_work+0x5fa/0xef0
[ 4.150873] worker_thread+0x54b/0xf70
[ 4.150978] kthread+0x346/0x470
[ 4.151071] ret_from_fork+0x4fb/0x6c0
[ 4.151176] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[ 4.151286]
[ 4.151332] Freed by task 44:
[ 4.151418] kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
[ 4.151526] kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
[ 4.151634] kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60
[ 4.151751] __kasan_slab_free+0x43/0x70
[ 4.151861] kfree+0x1ca/0x430
[ 4.151952] __ksmbd_tree_conn_disconnect+0xc8/0x190
[ 4.152088] smb2_tree_disconnect+0x1cd/0x480
[ 4.152211] handle_ksmbd_work+0x40f/0x1080
[ 4.152326] process_one_work+0x5fa/0xef0
[ 4.152438] worker_thread+0x54b/0xf70
[ 4.152545] kthread+0x346/0x470
[ 4.152638] ret_from_fork+0x4fb/0x6c0
[ 4.152743] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[ 4.152853]
[ 4.152900] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88810430c180
[ 4.152900] which belongs to the cache kmalloc-96 of size 96
[ 4.153226] The buggy address is located 20 bytes inside of
[ 4.153226] freed 96-byte region [ffff88810430c180, ffff88810430c1e0)
[ 4.153549]
[ 4.153596] The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
[ 4.153750] page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff88810430ce80 pfn:0x10430c
[ 4.154000] flags: 0x
---truncated---

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-23428
Source Linux
Published Apr 3, 2026 at 15:15
Modified Apr 27, 2026 at 14:02

Affected Product

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Version eb947403518ea3d93f6d89264bb1f5416bb0c7d0
Affected Versions Linux Linux eb947403518ea3d93f6d89264bb1f5416bb0c7d0
Linux Linux 854156d12caa9d36de1cf5f084591c7686cc8a9d
Linux Linux 5005bcb4219156f1bf7587b185080ec1da08518e
Linux Linux 5005bcb4219156f1bf7587b185080ec1da08518e
Linux Linux 5005bcb4219156f1bf7587b185080ec1da08518e
Linux Linux 5005bcb4219156f1bf7587b185080ec1da08518e
Linux Linux 5005bcb4219156f1bf7587b185080ec1da08518e
Linux Linux d1066c1b3663401cd23c0d6e60cdae750ce00c0f
Linux Linux 6.4

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