CVE record · CVE-2026-98173

smb: client: fix use-after-free of iface in cifs_try_adding_channels()

CVSS 7.5 HighEPSS 0.0034 · 28th 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 aa45dadd34e44fcd6a9df4b395bee5b5633b4cec to before 93e8a49adb2a575202c5ee766435eff2f9f95f5b git
  • affected aa45dadd34e44fcd6a9df4b395bee5b5633b4cec to before ee0d8f83d68f6e6509f092c997ccab3c8c801538 git
  • affected aa45dadd34e44fcd6a9df4b395bee5b5633b4cec to before c941f1ebfd26f683de81091473f3596a218abff0 git
  • affected aa45dadd34e44fcd6a9df4b395bee5b5633b4cec to before e99040e5e9c60441e6b4725e1a7b88c3106ae903 git
  • affected aa45dadd34e44fcd6a9df4b395bee5b5633b4cec to before ec36b38e65596950e6c29bed7dfc90b98707c19c git
  • affected aa45dadd34e44fcd6a9df4b395bee5b5633b4cec to before d034e836eefd7ce75e588f7031cffbeec594f5ac git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 5.19
  • unaffected before 5.19 semver
  • unaffected 6.1.191 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.160 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-2026-98173
CNA
Linux
Published
6 Oct 2026
Updated
30 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.5 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0034, the 28th 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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