Bug 2552207 (CVE-2026-98405) - CVE-2026-98405 kernel: smb: client: fix missing iov bounds check in parse_posix_sids()
Summary: CVE-2026-98405 kernel: smb: client: fix missing iov bounds check in parse_pos...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98405
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-14 13:44 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-16 07:22 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-14 13:44:52 UTC
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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