{"cve":"CVE-2026-64061","nvd":{"published":"2026-07-19T16:17:46.613","modified":"2026-09-02T21:12:26.360","status":"Analyzed","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfs: Fix early put of sink folio in netfs_read_gaps()\n\nFix netfs_read_gaps() to release the sink page it uses after waiting for\nthe request to complete.  The way the sink page is used is that an\nITER_BVEC-class iterator is created that has the gaps from the target folio\nat either end, but has the sink page tiled over the middle so that a single\nread op can fill in both gaps.\n\nThe bug was found by KASAN detecting a UAF on the generic/075 xfstest in\nthe cifsd kernel thread that handles reception of data from the TCP socket:\n\n BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in _copy_to_iter+0x48a/0xa20\n Write of size 885 at addr ffff888107f92000 by task cifsd/1285\n CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 1285 Comm: cifsd Not tainted 7.0.0 #6 PREEMPT(lazy)\n Call Trace:\n  dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x80\n  print_report+0x17f/0x4f1\n  kasan_report+0x100/0x1e0\n  kasan_check_range+0x10f/0x1e0\n  __asan_memcpy+0x3c/0x60\n  _copy_to_iter+0x48a/0xa20\n  __skb_datagram_iter+0x2c9/0x430\n  skb_copy_datagram_iter+0x6e/0x160\n  tcp_recvmsg_locked+0xce0/0x1130\n  tcp_recvmsg+0xeb/0x300\n  inet_recvmsg+0xcf/0x3a0\n  sock_recvmsg+0xea/0x100\n  cifs_readv_from_socket+0x3a6/0x4d0 [cifs]\n  cifs_read_iter_from_socket+0xdd/0x130 [cifs]\n  cifs_readv_receive+0xaad/0xb10 [cifs]\n  cifs_demultiplex_thread+0x1148/0x1740 [cifs]\n  kthread+0x1cf/0x210","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":9.8},"cwes":["CWE-416"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a39d49c8d97df8cb8fa80c10859bc1ba7358c6b","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e5dd91b87a8b1450217b56a336bee315f40da7d","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/412e8bad48967fd34295866636c028befd27d8b9","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4f4bc87c76511cf2532448b0fa40c25e894bd7d"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:45:36.895656543+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-64061","score":0.00469,"percentile":0.40598,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}