{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-23228 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-23228 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Feb 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-23228 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-23228 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Feb 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-23228 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23228/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23228/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-23228","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23228/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-23228","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2026-23228","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23228","GHSA-j6h2-wr53-6vcg","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2026-23228","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2026-23228","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2026-23228","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2026-23228","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23228"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel SMB server","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A resource leak in the Linux kernel's ksmbd SMB server can lead to denial of service by exhausting connection counters.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-401","name":"Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: server: fix leak of active_num_conn in ksmbd_tcp_new_connection()\n\nOn kthread_run() failure in ksmbd_tcp_new_connection(), the transport is\nfreed via free_transport(), which does not decrement active_num_conn,\nleaking this counter.\n\nReplace free_transport() with ksmbd_tcp_disconnect().","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"smb: server: fix leak of active_num_conn in ksmbd_tcp_new_connection()","id":"CVE-2026-23228","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":7,"next":{"headline":"crypto: virtio - Add spinlock protection with virtqueue notification","id":"CVE-2026-23229"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"drm/exynos: vidi: use ctx-\u003elock to protect struct vidi_context member variables related to memory alloc/free","id":"CVE-2026-23227"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-02-18","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-06-02","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A resource leak in the Linux kernel's ksmbd SMB server can lead to denial of service by exhausting connection counters.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23228/"}