Machine-written summary
Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.
The Linux kernel SMB client read path leaks a request buffer in smb2_new_read_req() when SMB Direct memory registration fails with -EAGAIN, and repeated retries leak more buffers. The source does not say who can trigger the failure, but it can accumulate memory over time. Affected kernels run from 4.16 until the fixes, so upgrade to 6.1.191, 6.6.157, 6.12.110, 6.18.52 or a later release in those series. No workaround is listed.
Not analysed yet
We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.
Severity and exploitation
No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.
- CISA KEV Not listed.
- EPSS 0.0021, the 10th percentile, on 13 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Timeline
Sources
References from the CNA
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/38daae149c2102d96833cc6acd79c8f98fcce208
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/58066940076b90c16e821fd6f9767cd979cbdb5e
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/12092ed28434bf41e08d41e3c5269eb6b337fc02
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/442c5f1358ced0d4e716778ac06f1e323a7e4f21
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/73f6bdb0380486ab37fe12cd74de20abfaf5d3ae
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/deb6468f4164640e4dc875f008aa449cf55987a5