Out-of-bounds Read Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [4.9.125,4.10)[4.14.68,4.15)[4.18.6,4.19)[4.19,6.1.189)[6.2,6.6.158)[6.7,6.12.112)[6.13,6.18.54)[6.19,7.2.8)
Threat Intelligence
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- published11 Oct 2026
- disclosed6 Oct 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 6 Oct 2026
NewCVE-2026-98169 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.10, 4.15, 4.19, 6.1.189, 6.6.158, 6.12.112, 6.18.54, 7.2.8 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read via the smb3_enum_snapshots function. An attacker can cause sensitive kernel memory to be disclosed to user space and potentially trigger a kernel crash by sending a specially crafted SMB2 IOCTL response with a short OutputCount value from a malicious SMB server. This is only exploitable if a user mounts a share from an attacker-controlled server and a process on the client issues an ioctl(CIFS_ENUMERATE_SNAPSHOTS) call on a file within that share.
Note: The Linux kernel project assigns a CVE to every bug fix it ships, whether or not the bug has been shown to be exploitable. This advisory was generated from that process and has not been individually assessed for exploitability. See the kernel's CVE process documentation: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/cve.rst