smb: client: fix create context out-of-bounds reads (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-98454
HIGH 8.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.39 % · percentile 33 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

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.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d < 34245048d6c1fa6d7be4f0dec1d14b5be02360e1 ; affected b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d < 0a8c2a6715c2a67b7abbbf874fccc9f5518146d9 ; affected b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d < 43d0ca48bb902d554b6531862248810d2ae3b8ef ; affected b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d < e4c49012708c917eafd9c27054b02d0f8b30fe64 ; affected b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d < 28bc9a871799363afa3139e961a8e3684feb8704 ; affected b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d < 05a7fd80024ff32b9b40ab1478bb172eeab1c386
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.7 ; unaffected 0 < 3.7 ; unaffected 5.10.273 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.224 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.191 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.158 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD