CVE-2026-101276 (GCVE-0-2026-101276)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-30 21:11 – Updated: 2026-09-30 21:13
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Summary
iperf3 3.21 (esnet/iperf) contains a remote, unauthenticated heap use-after-free: the server's per-test watchdog server_timer_proc() frees streams without cancelling/joining their worker threads, so a blocked worker dereferences a freed iperf_stream; fixed in 3.22.
Severity
9.2 (Critical)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
Assigner
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
esnet iperf3 Affected: 3.21
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Anthropic Ada Logics
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