Unpatched Linux KSMBD RCE flaws and other kernel bugs disclosed publicly via ZDI reports without fixes
In October 2026, technical details of several unpatched Linux vulnerabilities appeared on public mailing lists before fixes were widely available. The reports were submitted by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), and the most severe are two remote code execution flaws in KSMBD, the in-kernel SMB server. Kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-H…