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CVE-2026-98167

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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.

Fix

Microsoft's update · Critical

  • Release Notes — azl3 kernel 6.6.157.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0 · build 6.6.158.1-1

From the 2026-Oct release note of Microsoft's Security Update Guide, revised 2026-10-28.

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Change history 2

  1. StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-19 09:14
  2. First seenunscoredNVD modified 2026-10-19 10:18

Affected (CPE criteria) 0

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References 6