Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 7, 2026
CVE-2026-99273
CVE-2026-99273
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ksmbd: reserve space for the UTF-16 terminator in stream info
smb_strtoUTF16() always writes a terminating zero UTF-16 unit after the converted characters, but get_file_stream_info() budgets only sizeof(struct smb2_file_stream_info) + streamlen * 2 for a stream entry and sizeof(struct smb2_file_stream_info) + 7 * 2 for the trailing "::$DATA" entry. When an entry exactly fills the 448-byte small response buffer, the terminator is written two bytes past the allocation.
Reserve one extra UTF-16 unit in both budget checks. The terminator is not part of the wire format, so the reported lengths are unchanged.
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