CVE-2026-98171

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

smb: client: fix next_buffer UAF and NextCommand bounds in compound PDUs

Fix several related bounds checking and pointer lifecycle issues in receive_encrypted_standard()'s handling of compound encrypted frames:

• Clear next_buffer after assigning it to server->bigbuf. A stale next_buffer pointer can lead to a use-after-free on subsequent error paths.
• Update pdu_length to the decrypted plaintext size (buf_size). Using the pre-decryption length allows NextCommand to point into stale ciphertext residue.
• Reject next_cmd values smaller than MID_HEADER_SIZE(server).
• Fix an integer overflow in the upper bound check by verifying pdu_length - next_cmd < MID_HEADER_SIZE(server), ensuring the trailing slice is large enough for a header.