CVE record · CVE-2026-74608

smb: client: Fix use-after-free in cifs_try_adding_channels()

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0048 · 41st percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 22 Aug 2026, 15:31 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Linux	Linux	affected cbc53148cc0946b72d62a3c53870cb22ce4ec284 to before 64d7584e62ac8cdc750455c5fdc6008fc2de4f06 git affected cff97d683a083b862a8bb24309e0f4d2d928128a to before c292d4686f717c03e5022fc4ae7c782f39a94915 git affected 6aac002bcfd554aff6d3ebb55e1660d078d70ab0 to before 47dfac48bce7198ad4f1a388fc8c9491f878ac3b git affected 6aac002bcfd554aff6d3ebb55e1660d078d70ab0 to before 1ffacbadc14530e55b8d86f7b917524f6a0fb891 git affected 6aac002bcfd554aff6d3ebb55e1660d078d70ab0 to before 1305eadc6a7d78a8d0a52eee29ddd2d9e8a27805 git affected 6aac002bcfd554aff6d3ebb55e1660d078d70ab0 to before 4986410316b1ae0e63c6ce418e4eb196723626e7 git affected 22a6c5b3425f327e7f4c3606a72277dce82c7d83 git affected 6.1.78 to before 6.1.183 semver affected 6.6.17 to before 6.6.152 semver affected 6.7.5 to before 6.8 semver Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 6.8 unaffected before 6.8 semver unaffected 6.1.183 to 6.1., inclusive semver unaffected 6.6.152 to 6.6., inclusive semver unaffected 6.12.104 to 6.12., inclusive semver unaffected 6.18.45 to 6.18., inclusive semver unaffected 7.1.9 to 7.1., inclusive semver unaffected 7.2 to , inclusive original_commit_for_fix Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-74608
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 22 Aug 2026
Updated: 16 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
9.8	Critical	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (Linux)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0048, the 41st percentile, on 15 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 22 Aug 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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