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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: validate DFS referral string offsets parse_dfs_referrals() validates that the response header and referral array fit in the received buffer, but each referral also contains string offsets supplied by the server. Those offsets are used to compute the DfsPath and NetworkAddress string pointers without checking whether they still point inside the response buffer. A malformed referral can therefore make the computed pointer exceed the end of the buffer. The resulting negative max_len is then passed to cifs_strndup_from_utf16(), and the non-Unicode path forwards it to kstrndup() as a size_t, allowing strnlen() to read out of bounds. Validate each string offset before deriving the string pointer.
Upstream advisory: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026081506-CVE-2026-72318-c46b@gregkh/T
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Via RHSA-2026:81406 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:81406
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Via RHSA-2026:81552 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:81552
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2026:82807 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82807