CVE-2026-31708
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: fix OOB read in smb2_ioctl_query_info QUERY_INFO path
smb2_ioctl_query_info() has two response-copy branches: PASSTHRU_FSCTL and the default QUERY_INFO path. The QUERY_INFO branch clamps qi.input_buffer_length to the server-reported OutputBufferLength and then copies qi.input_buffer_length bytes from qi_rsp->Buffer to userspace, but it never verifies that the flexible-array payload actually fits within rsp_iov[1].iov_len.
A malicious server can return OutputBufferLength larger than the actual QUERY_INFO response, causing copy_to_user() to walk past the response buffer and expose adjacent kernel heap to userspace.
Guard the QUERY_INFO copy with a bounds check on the actual Buffer payload. Use struct_size(qi_rsp, Buffer, qi.input_buffer_length) rather than an open-coded addition so the guard cannot overflow on 32-bit builds.
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Affected products
9- osv-coords7 versionspkg:apk/chainguard/linux-aws-6.18pkg:apk/chainguard/linux-azure-6.18pkg:apk/chainguard/linux-gcp-6.18pkg:apk/chainguard/linux-qemu-6.18pkg:apk/chainguard/linux-qemu-rcpkg:apk/chainguard/linux-vmware-6.18pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-source&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 6.18.31-r0+ 6 more
- (no CPE)range: < 6.18.31-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 6.18.31-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 6.18.31-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 6.18.24-r3
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1_rc3-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 6.18.31-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 7.0.7-1.1
Patches
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References
6- git.kernel.org/stable/c/078fae8f50adebb903ccf2252b44391324571e78nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/85fd46ee26a11841c670449508025965f61ce131nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a34d456934fe42e4da5d2cc07787bf418bee99c6nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a58c5af19ff0d6f44f6e9fe31e33a2c92223f77envdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac2f14e4705d020f04e806efa0d49ab8dc2b145fnvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1dd757379997b71a328a4b591ffaf481acd0ead1nvd
News mentions
1- Patch Tuesday - May 2026Rapid7 Blog · May 13, 2026