CVE-2026-98167 PUBLISHED

smb: client: fix server->total_read for compound encrypted PDUs

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 06.10.2026 Updated: 06.10.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: client: fix server->total_read for compound encrypted PDUs

In receive_encrypted_standard(), server->total_read is left at the full decrypted frame size when walking sub-PDUs of a compound encrypted frame. As a result, cifs_handle_standard() passes this full size to smb2_check_message(), causing the PDU length guards to incorrectly validate the entire compound frame instead of the current sub-PDU.

This allows truncated non-last sub-PDUs to bypass length validation, leading to out-of-bounds reads in smb2_get_data_area_len().

Fix this by setting server->total_read to the true length of the current sub-PDU: next_cmd for non-last sub-PDUs, and the remaining pdu_length for the last one.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from b24df3e30cbf48255db866720fb71f14bf9d2f39 to 8703539d22fdbc13dd2db090ee199c3a427b8ea0 (excl.)
  • affected from b24df3e30cbf48255db866720fb71f14bf9d2f39 to e78fc1d240b27349b45a0f1c3e3c2c401d7e230d (excl.)
  • affected from b24df3e30cbf48255db866720fb71f14bf9d2f39 to a46eb242e9eef3a3897d166748b23303c516e870 (excl.)
  • affected from b24df3e30cbf48255db866720fb71f14bf9d2f39 to ebb8a075fdc7af3d196a4f158a0e18dbc394c0e3 (excl.)
  • affected from b24df3e30cbf48255db866720fb71f14bf9d2f39 to 282b72f9a7ef31296c48366db4128882999cc048 (excl.)
  • affected from b24df3e30cbf48255db866720fb71f14bf9d2f39 to f73726b83e4756fdaa099e1bc1143293bd57ad79 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.19 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.19 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.189 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.158 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.54 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.8 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc4 to * (incl.)

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