Medium
use after free in SMB connection reuse
Type: advisorySources: OSV
When doing a second SMB request to the same host again, curl would wrongly use a data pointer pointing into already freed memory.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-3805
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:38 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
When doing a second SMB request to the same host again, curl would wrongly use a data pointer pointing into already freed memory.
osv:CURL-CVE-2026-3805
Complete source record
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