Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 14, 2026
CVE-2026-98405
CVE-2026-98405
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: fix missing iov bounds check in parse_posix_sids()
In parse_posix_sids(), sidsbuf_end is calculated using the server-supplied out_len without being validated against the actual length of the received iov (iov_len).
If a server provides an inflated out_len, sidsbuf_end will point past the end of the iov. This defeats the bounds guards in posix_info_sid_size(), allowing out-of-bounds reads into adjacent kernel memory.
Fix this by rejecting responses where the calculated sidsbuf_end would exceed the received iov boundaries or cause pointer wraparound.
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References
5- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f8ed71aaaba3bc8b19cd9930cc62e63e142b299nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b09d092eb24ad0110f16a9b7c1ed5d2a0c1733dcnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b862996e5105be1293da9cdc85da77b76021c3bdnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d91b9a3b2b38e5ac1b51e9e5b23fe53ad7b49644nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/eac6917a42899aad0617bbf04798c5dd946a1fe5nvd
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