CVE-2026-98454 PUBLISHED

smb: client: fix create context out-of-bounds reads

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

smb: client: fix create context out-of-bounds reads

smb2_parse_contexts() validates the complete create-context area but does not limit each record to its Next field before dispatching it. A malformed chain can therefore expose bytes beyond the current context to a handler. The QFid handler also used a full response-structure cast although it only reads DiskFileId.

The SMB2/SMB3 lease parsers made the same layout assumption: they read LeaseState and LeaseFlags at canonical offsets rather than at DataOffset. A valid non-canonical DataOffset could therefore yield unrelated in-bounds data, while a short DataLength was still accepted.

Limit each context to its Next value, reject offsets before the context header, and reject malformed chains. Bound the name range by the current context and do not dispatch a known handler when DataLength is zero. Read the QFid DiskFileId only when the context data covers that field. Parse the lease context from DataOffset and require DataLength to match the v1 or v2 lease_context size used by ksmbd. A size mismatch skips lease parsing without failing the open.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d to e4c49012708c917eafd9c27054b02d0f8b30fe64 (excl.)
  • affected from b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d to 28bc9a871799363afa3139e961a8e3684feb8704 (excl.)
  • affected from b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d to 05a7fd80024ff32b9b40ab1478bb172eeab1c386 (excl.)
  • affected from b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d to cecc5399987e73a528ce2b662eeb54af69163cbd (excl.)
  • affected from b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d to 67f4c1c6a1b51e203d986779299824d1c2c590a6 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.7 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.7 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.158 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.55 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.9 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc5 to * (incl.)

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