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CVE-2026-99272: smb: client: validate the data area in SMB2_read()

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Priority: Monitor (action score 0/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.14% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Fixed version: Linux Linux 1ba1937de005e261a8858f45bfef5da7458df94c, 2ec9cdf469dd32bcf33073aeb30c08e9356e0ca1.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 1ba1937de005e261a8858f45bfef5da7458df94c, 2ec9cdf469dd32bcf33073aeb30c08e9356e0ca1 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: validate the data area in SMB2_read() SMB2_read() copies le32_to_cpu(rsp->DataLength) bytes from (char *)rsp + rsp->DataOffset without checking that the range lies within the response actually received. A READ response with DataOffset == 0 makes smb2_get_data_area_len() zero the data length, so smb2_check_message() accepts a frame as short as the fixed response, while SMB2_read() still uses the server-supplied DataLength, capped only by CIFS_MAX_MSGSIZE and the caller's length. A malicious server can answer the synchronous read used by the mfsymlinks (or SFU) symlink parser with an 81-byte READ response carrying DataOffset 0 and DataLength 1067, making the client copy 1067 bytes from a 448-byte receive object (KASAN slab-out-of-bounds; up to 16 KiB in the general case). Clamp a zero (or header-overlapping) DataOffset to read_rsp_size, as handle_read_data() does for the asynchronous path, and reject the response unless DataOffset + DataLength fits within rsp_iov.iov_len. The SMB1 helper was fixed the same way in 5be5bdda5863.

—No exploit Fix available
Published
Nov 7, 2026
Updated
Nov 7, 2026
EPSS
0.1% · 3th percentile
CWE
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CVSS
0 / 40 · —
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.1%

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    • 3.7affected
    • d8e050398d23ef7c019c96200b80d73f4e5cec0c and later · before 1ba1937de005e261a8858f45bfef5da7458df94caffected · git
    • d8e050398d23ef7c019c96200b80d73f4e5cec0c and later · before 2ec9cdf469dd32bcf33073aeb30c08e9356e0ca1affected · git
    • before 3.7not affected · semver
    • 7.3.2 and later · up to and including 7.3.*not affected · semver
    • 7.4-rc1 and laternot affected · original_commit_for_fix

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  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-99271Nov 7, 2026 · ALSA: line6: Clear prev_fbuf on capture buffer release
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  • Later →CVE-2026-99273Nov 7, 2026 · ksmbd: reserve space for the UTF-16 terminator in stream info
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Linux Linux2ec9cdf469dd32bcf33073aeb30c08e9356e0ca1Vendor (CNA)

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