{"cve":"CVE-2026-97560","nvd":{"published":"2026-09-25T11:17:06.537","modified":"2026-10-19T10:17:25.073","status":"Received","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: fix one-byte OOB read in smb2_parse_native_symlink()\n\nWhen parsing a share-root relative native symlink, memcpy copies\nsmb_target+1 (skipping the leading separator) but uses\nstrlen(smb_target)+1 as the length, reading one byte past the\nallocated buffer.\n\nThis fixes the following KASAN splat when accessing an SMB symlink\nwith a target of '\\a\\b':\n\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in smb2_parse_native_symlink+0x4f5/0xca0\n  Read of size 5 at addr ffff88800878fe21 by task netfsfuzz-execu/1\n  CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: netfsfuzz-execu Tainted: G N\n  7.2.0-11943-g2709dd5ae32f-dirty #1 PREEMPT(lazy)\n  Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC v2 (i440FX + PIIX, arch_caps fix,\n  1996)\n  Call Trace:\n   <TASK>\n   dump_stack_lvl+0x7b/0xa0\n   print_report+0xd0/0x630\n   kasan_report+0xe5/0x120\n   kasan_check_range+0x105/0x1b0\n   __asan_memcpy+0x23/0x60\n   smb2_parse_native_symlink+0x4f5/0xca0\n   parse_reparse_point+0x68a/0x1530\n   reparse_info_to_fattr+0x752/0xa20\n   cifs_get_fattr+0x873/0x15b0\n   cifs_get_inode_info+0xc0/0x310\n   cifs_lookup+0x308/0xa70\n   __lookup_slow+0x122/0x2b0\n   lookup_slow+0x50/0x70\n   path_lookupat+0x525/0xaf0\n   filename_lookup+0x1f2/0x550\n   vfs_statx+0xd1/0x1a0\n   vfs_fstatat+0x65/0xc0\n   __do_sys_newfstatat+0x9a/0x120\n   do_syscall_64+0xdd/0x4a0\n   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22a9d0a9ba0c89be57558c1aa80dc60a571dd89c","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a302fdbaf7dd00d285303c94af8f48321c22993","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb26524ef4ac28fcfa554c0656e8dc412c38a8ff","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1f173d28e964ba2c3c4ebe7491d594dc8c77a40","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff411fcbfc55eec1d66ea82483d254319dc8e973"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:56:02.509636177+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-97560","score":0.002,"percentile":0.09767,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}