CVE record · CVE-2026-98454

smb: client: fix create context out-of-bounds reads

CVSS 8.1 HighEPSS 0.0039 · 33rd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:15 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 b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d to before 34245048d6c1fa6d7be4f0dec1d14b5be02360e1 git
  • affected b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d to before 0a8c2a6715c2a67b7abbbf874fccc9f5518146d9 git
  • affected b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d to before 43d0ca48bb902d554b6531862248810d2ae3b8ef git
  • affected b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d to before e4c49012708c917eafd9c27054b02d0f8b30fe64 git
  • affected b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d to before 28bc9a871799363afa3139e961a8e3684feb8704 git
  • affected b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d to before 05a7fd80024ff32b9b40ab1478bb172eeab1c386 git
  • affected b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d to before cecc5399987e73a528ce2b662eeb54af69163cbd git
  • affected b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d to before 67f4c1c6a1b51e203d986779299824d1c2c590a6 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 3.7
  • unaffected before 3.7 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.273 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.224 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.191 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.158 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.112 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.55 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.9 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-98454
CNA
Linux
Published
18 Oct 2026
Updated
30 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.1 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0039, the 33rd percentile, on 8 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 18 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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