# 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-2026-43185"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-06T11:27:56.386Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:40:13.282Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-43185"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43185.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43185"
title: "ksmbd: fix signededness bug in smb_direct_prepare_negotiation()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: fix signededness bug in smb_direct_prepare_negotiation()\n\nsmb_direct_prepare_negotiation() casts an unsigned __u32 value\nfrom sp-\u003emax_recv_size and req-\u003epreferred_send_size to a signed\nint before computing min_t(int, ...). A maliciously provided\npreferred_send_size of 0x80000000 will return as smaller than\nmax_recv_size, and then be used to set the maximum allowed\nalowed receive size for the next message.\n\nBy sending a second message with a large value (\u003e1420 bytes)\nthe attacker can then achieve a heap buffer overflow.\n\nThis fix replaces min_t(int, ...) with min_t(u32)"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"56eab82fa6fb5ca024b0514e249d40d9b23ee5a7"},{"version":"0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a110dbe928561d440e9e117d17331139a0bedace"},{"version":"0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ceae058eb707ddd0d68f0872f9d9f23b7c30c37b"},{"version":"0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"55abc475d096da4a5356b6efb0cfdc6156bc1550"},{"version":"0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b4f875aac344cdd52a1f34cc70ed2f874a65757"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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