CVE-2026-98168: vulnerability in Linux
smb: client: fix reparse buffer bounds in cifs_query_reparse_point()
Published
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 91% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: fix reparse buffer bounds in cifs_query_reparse_point()
In cifs_query_reparse_point(), the start >= end check before casting to
struct reparse_data_buffer * only ensures the start pointer is within the
response. It fails to verify that there is enough space remaining for the
fixed 8-byte header of the structure.
If a server provides a DataOffset that leaves less than 8 bytes remaining,
the check passes, but subsequent reads of ReparseTag and ReparseDataLength
will occur out-of-bounds.
Fix this by ensuring the remaining space is at least the size of the
reparse_data_buffer structure before accessing its fields.
Affected products
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