# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31708"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-01T13:56:05.880Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:06:06.825Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31708"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31708.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31708"
title: "smb: client: fix OOB read in smb2_ioctl_query_info QUERY_INFO path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: fix OOB read in smb2_ioctl_query_info QUERY_INFO path\n\nsmb2_ioctl_query_info() has two response-copy branches: PASSTHRU_FSCTL\nand the default QUERY_INFO path.  The QUERY_INFO branch clamps\nqi.input_buffer_length to the server-reported OutputBufferLength and then\ncopies qi.input_buffer_length bytes from qi_rsp-\u003eBuffer to userspace, but\nit never verifies that the flexible-array payload actually fits within\nrsp_iov[1].iov_len.\n\nA malicious server can return OutputBufferLength larger than the actual\nQUERY_INFO response, causing copy_to_user() to walk past the response\nbuffer and expose adjacent kernel heap to userspace.\n\nGuard the QUERY_INFO copy with a bounds check on the actual Buffer\npayload.  Use struct_size(qi_rsp, Buffer, qi.input_buffer_length)\nrather than an open-coded addition so the guard cannot overflow on\n32-bit builds."
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