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CVE record · CVE-2026-98171

smb: client: fix next_buffer UAF and NextCommand bounds in compound PDUs

CVSS 8.8 HighEPSS 0.0054 · 45th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 6 Oct 2026, 08:44 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux
  • affected b24df3e30cbf48255db866720fb71f14bf9d2f39 to before 1ed29f7a03417b405f38c09cfe04124883127b53 git
  • affected b24df3e30cbf48255db866720fb71f14bf9d2f39 to before 7f022867ec9f0166a0b4400385bb601b1c6b2c75 git
  • affected b24df3e30cbf48255db866720fb71f14bf9d2f39 to before 72eaef1f37a3b6bec11c342736834dc3707be3e4 git
  • affected b24df3e30cbf48255db866720fb71f14bf9d2f39 to before 491e33144dee872cffda207f6fcb09260728f803 git
  • affected b24df3e30cbf48255db866720fb71f14bf9d2f39 to before 8749946579708ea0d339034bb7f423a67dbe89cf git
  • affected b24df3e30cbf48255db866720fb71f14bf9d2f39 to before 96c436e4b010711452b2872558938f4ef276492a git
  • affected b24df3e30cbf48255db866720fb71f14bf9d2f39 to before 858d5ac22cb889266993e7670f9f0c4f4aeedd78 git
  • affected b24df3e30cbf48255db866720fb71f14bf9d2f39 to before 05762c5bc1cfdcac36747994fde2c04387a457f1 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 4.19
  • unaffected before 4.19 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.273 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.224 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.189 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.158 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.112 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.54 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.8 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-98171
CNA
Linux
Tags
Published
6 Oct 2026
Updated
30 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.8 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0054, the 45th percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 6 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.