Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-97583

Linux Linux

afs: Clear stale peer app data after address list changes

CVSS 3.1
7.5High

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Clear stale peer app data after address list changes afs_fs_probe_fileserver() fetches the current endpoint state under server->fs_lock, but leaves old_alist as NULL. Consequently, afs_set_peer_appdata() treats every address list replacement as initial setup and only binds the new peers; it never unbinds peers removed from the old list. An address refresh can therefore proceed as follows. CPU 0 replaces server S's list and drops Pold without clearing Pold->app_data. The server destroyer then clears only S's current peers and lets S reach its RCU callback. After the callback frees S, CPU 1 handles a callback through an RxRPC connection that still pins Pold, reads Pold->app_data, and calls afs_use_server() on the freed object. KASAN reported: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in afs_find_server+0x3c/0xa0 Read of size 4 at addr ffff8881013e1af0 by task krxrpcio/7001/74 Call Trace: afs_find_server+0x3c/0xa0 afs_rx_new_call+0x15c/0x390 rxrpc_new_incoming_call+0x97c/0x1730 rxrpc_input_packet.constprop.0+0xd03/0xec0 rxrpc_io_thread+0x967/0x1640 Allocated by task 93: afs_lookup_server+0x1a7/0x14c0 afs_alloc_server_list+0x43f/0xb60 afs_create_volume+0x923/0x1490 afs_get_tree+0x1c6/0x10a0 Freed by task 0: kfree+0x131/0x3c0 rcu_core+0x50a/0x1850 Last potentially related work creation: __call_rcu_common.constprop.0+0x71/0xa10 afs_put_server+0x213/0x2b0 Preserve old->addresses for the peer app-data update so that removed peers are cleared before the endpoint state is replaced. Also advance both cursors when the old and new lists share a peer; activating the old/new comparison without this would otherwise loop forever on the shared entry.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
7.5High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (Linux) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
Linux Linux 6.15 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 39ba6af83a7f9dee3e6a7916f41a48bcbda54eba ≤ v < 3afb988fd0411707bdafb9b321086fff0da28aae CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 40e8b52fe8c8ab6920ea5f59c5469b6918cce624 ≤ v < c7f77a11a1e719192c7262aad38a3919aec62c21 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 40e8b52fe8c8ab6920ea5f59c5469b6918cce624 ≤ v < 7f7f5589d048821dea316cbac9b37d27eaf7530e CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 40e8b52fe8c8ab6920ea5f59c5469b6918cce624 ≤ v < ba0623fc19a424f4745394c499f9f28a8d88d397 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 6.12.101 ≤ v < 6.12.111 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2026-09-25
Last updated
2026-10-19
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
Linux

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.41%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
35.8%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

Weaknesses (CWE)

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