CVE-2026-98169: high-severity vulnerability in Linux
smb: client: fix potential OOB read in smb3_enum_snapshots()
Published · Updated
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.1epss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 64% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: fix potential OOB read in smb3_enum_snapshots()
If snapshot_array_size is smaller than GMT_TOKEN_SIZE,
smb3_enum_snapshots() sets ret_data_len to
sizeof(struct smb_snapshot_array) without verifying the actual length
of the server's reply.
Because SMB2_ioctl() places no lower bound on the server-supplied
OutputCount and allocates retbuf to exactly that length, a short reply
results in ret_data_len exceeding the size of retbuf. The subsequent
copy_to_user() then reads past the end of retbuf, leaking adjacent slab
memory to userspace. The subsequent clamp check is ineffective as it
only reduces ret_data_len.
Fix this by rejecting replies shorter than
sizeof(struct smb_snapshot_array) with -EIO. Note that the bound is set
to the 12-byte struct size rather than the 16-byte
MIN_SNAPSHOT_ARRAY_SIZE defined in MS-SMB2 3.3.5.15.1, because 12 bytes
is exactly what copy_to_user() attempts to read.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
Affected products
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15a221c734b9d044ab769e7e3606b2cab96fb65ahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1cdf0d304d820fb13bf0faf532c3459600f9ea43https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/210f0f1f67817e7d2348b86b5115a9b85ef5c98bhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4775c3b7a597907e0b97556c7986fda238a377aehttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74995ee8305a7c4d76ee70d6acd996a75eda3c03https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dbe452a905dfe2804647530a9ff3d7e3826ed04d