Copyright © 2012 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. Important 2026-09-11T00:00:00 kernel: smb: client: reject a tree connect response whose byte count is too small 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CWE-125

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: reject a tree connect response whose byte count is too small CIFSTCon() bounds its strnlen() over the byte area with the server's ByteCount minus two, which for ByteCount 0 or 1 goes negative as an int and converts to a huge size_t. The later subtraction wraps the __u16 bytes_left, and that is what bounds cifs_strndup_from_utf16(): a bound of up to 65535 against a ~16 KB cifs_req_poolp object runs off the end of the slab object, and the bytes reach userspace through tcon->nativeFileSystem in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData. Reject a byte area too small for what the parser consumes. Two bytes is the least it can consume, and no conformant response carries fewer. The new trace point is the 129th smb_eio_trace entry, which __mode(byte) cannot represent, so the attribute goes with it.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Server Message Block (SMB) client. A remote malicious SMB server could send a specially crafted tree connect response with a byte count that is too small. This incorrect handling can lead to an integer underflow, causing the client to read beyond an allocated memory buffer. Consequently, sensitive information from kernel memory may be exposed to a local user through the `/proc/fs/cifs/DebugData` interface.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Affected kernel-rt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Not affected kernel-rt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Affected kernel-rt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Affected kernel-rt Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Affected openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Affected openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89631 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-89631 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2026/CVE-2026-89631.mbox