CVE-2026-64141

ksmbd: fix null pointer dereference in compare_guid_key()

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: July 19, 2026 at 03:40 PM UTC
Updated: August 18, 2026 at 01:05 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix null pointer dereference in compare_guid_key() session_fd_check() walks the per-inode m_op_list during durable-handle session teardown and sets op->conn = NULL for every opinfo whose conn matched the closing session's connection. The matching opinfo, however, stays linked in its per-ClientGuid lease_table_list entry's lb->lease_list because destroy_lease_table() only runs on full TCP-connection teardown, not on SESSION_LOGOFF. If the same TCP connection then negotiates a fresh session with the same ClientGuid (ClientGuid is bound to NEGOTIATE, not the session, and is unchanged across LOGOFF + SETUP) and issues a SMB2 CREATE with a lease context on a different inode, find_same_lease_key() walks lb->lease_list, reaches the stale opinfo, and calls compare_guid_key(), which unconditionally dereferences opinfo->conn->ClientGUID. The conn pointer is NULL and the kernel panics. Reproducer requires only a successful SMB2 SESSION_SETUP and a share configured with 'durable handles = yes'. KASAN report on mainline 70390501d194: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000069: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000348-0x000000000000034f] Workqueue: ksmbd-io handle_ksmbd_work RIP: 0010:bcmp+0x5b/0x230 Call Trace: compare_guid_key+0x4b/0xd0 find_same_lease_key+0x324/0x690 smb2_open+0x6aea/0x8e60 handle_ksmbd_work+0x796/0xee0 ... Faulting address 0x348 is the offset of ClientGUID within struct ksmbd_conn, confirming opinfo->conn was NULL. Read opinfo->conn once and bail out if it has been cleared by a concurrent session_fd_check(). A half-detached opinfo cannot be the owner of an active lease, so returning 0 is the correct match result.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.13 ≤ v < 6.18.346.19 ≤ v < 7.0.116.6.32 ≤ v < 6.6.1426.9 ≤ v < 6.12.926.9 ≤ v < 6.18.346.9 ≤ v < 7.0.116.9 ≤ v < 7.16.6.327.1 rc17.1 rc27.1 rc37.1 rc48df4bcdb0a4232192b2445256c39b787d58ef14dc8efcc786146a951091588e5fa7e3c754850cb3c
Vendor states this is fixed in 0836081b394ca074d1b910f2b990ff7b4b4404c7 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4b83cbc4c15f09b000cc06f033f64b0824b6dc87 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in af86896ca3239e25a6bd7d352213371265073d38 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in cd5c1b75d2f454f625d7dc55bd3ae21d0855f6ad (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e43cb36d4d7827710cfcd48e95e29a507f0d87be (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.92 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.34 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.142 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.9 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.0.11 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1 (unaffected)

CVSS

7.5HIGHLinux
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-476

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