CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-98318

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the SMB client has a buffer overflow vulnerability when processing absolute native symlink targets. The fix validates the NT drive prefix before accessing fixed offsets to prevent memory overwrites.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability may allow a user with access to a mounted share to perform an out-of-bounds write, potentially leading to privilege escalation or system crash.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix to prevent potential attacks.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: validate absolute native symlink targets before NT fixups With symlinkroot unset, an absolute target is copied without conversion to an NT drive path. Later code still assumes an NT prefix is present when modifying the target and calculating the print name length. For "/ab", this causes two failures: sym[5] and path[5] are written past their allocations, and plen -= 2 * poff subtracts an assumed 8-byte prefix from a 6-byte UTF-16 target, wrapping u16 plen to 65534. That underflow causes another overflow: memcpy() copies 65534 bytes into a 24-byte buffer. A user with write access to a mounted share can trigger these bugs with default settings. Validate the NT drive prefix, including an ASCII drive letter, before accessing fixed offsets or subtracting the prefix length.

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