CVE record · CVE-2026-98172

smb: client: fix smbd_connection leak on cifs_get_tcp_session() error

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0018 · 7th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 6 Oct 2026, 08:44 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
VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux
  • affected 2f8946464b11822169b9f10c7cf58a2440b51d54 to before c295f6505aec085d73e8dcea9f648c8af1b9da8c git
  • affected 2f8946464b11822169b9f10c7cf58a2440b51d54 to before 45a97df1b7fe6c1ca5493f8fb5284203991aeeb9 git
  • affected 2f8946464b11822169b9f10c7cf58a2440b51d54 to before 3164402c58940ff58a3cecdb026405f07b0253af git
  • affected 2f8946464b11822169b9f10c7cf58a2440b51d54 to before e3344bb0ff5ec8a276f42239e140f5442841ef23 git
  • affected 2f8946464b11822169b9f10c7cf58a2440b51d54 to before 5c908e49d349266dff0c86dda6a05df0ff19b824 git
  • affected 2f8946464b11822169b9f10c7cf58a2440b51d54 to before 928edc4bd6a617caabeb575fc13c254d9df623c4 git
  • affected 2f8946464b11822169b9f10c7cf58a2440b51d54 to before b26a3fcf2f1c2cadba400290b639f01395db8fc8 git
  • affected 2f8946464b11822169b9f10c7cf58a2440b51d54 to before e75c96157d45e498970158c8f7373d90102e33b9 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 4.16
  • unaffected before 4.16 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.273 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.224 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.189 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.158 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.112 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.54 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.8 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-98172
CNA
Linux
Published
6 Oct 2026
Updated
30 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0018, the 7th percentile, on 11 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 6 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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