CVE-2026-98167

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98167
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98167.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-98167
Downstream
Published
2026-10-06T08:44:12Z
Modified
2026-10-07T02:47:29Z
Summary
smb: client: fix server->total_read for compound encrypted PDUs
Details

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.

Database specific
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    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/98xxx/CVE-2026-98167.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
b24df3e30cbf48255db866720fb71f14bf9d2f39
Fixed
8703539d22fdbc13dd2db090ee199c3a427b8ea0
Fixed
e78fc1d240b27349b45a0f1c3e3c2c401d7e230d
Fixed
a46eb242e9eef3a3897d166748b23303c516e870
Fixed
ebb8a075fdc7af3d196a4f158a0e18dbc394c0e3
Fixed
282b72f9a7ef31296c48366db4128882999cc048
Fixed
f73726b83e4756fdaa099e1bc1143293bd57ad79

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98167.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.19.0
Fixed
6.1.189
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.158
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.112
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.54
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.2.8

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98167.json"