smb: client: fix rlist race and missing initialization
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix rlist race and missing initialization TCP_Server_Info.rlist is allocated via kzalloc which zeros both ->next and ->prev to NULL instead of pointing to itself, making list_empty() always return false and list_add() dereference a NULL ->prev pointer. Also, cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect() can be called concurrently from multiple cifsd threads, allowing the same server's rlist node to be added twice into the local list, corrupting it.
CVE-2026-98174
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-98174
Linux
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
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- Prerequisites
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Linux
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/1/product
- Affected versions
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Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
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]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-98174
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