CVE-2026-99273: ksmbd: reserve space for the UTF-16 terminator in stream info

Published Nov 7, 2026
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Updated

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ksmbd: reserve space for the UTF-16 terminator in stream info

smbstrtoUTF16() always writes a terminating zero UTF-16 unit after the converted characters, but getfilestreaminfo() budgets only sizeof(struct smb2filestreaminfo) + streamlen 2 for a stream entry and sizeof(struct smb2filestreaminfo) + 7 2 for the trailing "::$DATA" entry. When an entry exactly fills the 448-byte small response buffer, the terminator is written two bytes past the allocation.

Reserve one extra UTF-16 unit in both budget checks. The terminator is not part of the wire format, so the reported lengths are unchanged.

Event History

Nov 7, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·02:08 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·02:08 PM
Description
Data Sourced
via NVD·02:17 PM
Description

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