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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64578" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-05T08:09:33.740Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:29:02.136Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" 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-2026-64578" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64578.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64578" title: "ksmbd: validate compound request size before reading StructureSize2" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: validate compound request size before reading StructureSize2\n\nWhen ksmbd validates a compound (chained) SMB2 request,\nksmbd_smb2_check_message() reads pdu-\u003eStructureSize2 without first\nchecking that the compound element is large enough to contain it.\nStructureSize2 is a 2-byte field at offset 64\n(__SMB2_HEADER_STRUCTURE_SIZE) from the start of each element.\n\nThe compound-walking logic only guarantees that a full 64-byte SMB2\nheader is present for the trailing element: when NextCommand is 0, len is\nreduced to the number of bytes remaining after next_smb2_rcv_hdr_off. A\nremote client can craft a compound request whose last element has exactly\n64 bytes, so the 2-byte StructureSize2 read at offset 64 extends one byte\npast the receive buffer, producing a slab-out-of-bounds read.\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ksmbd_smb2_check_message (fs/smb/server/smb2misc.c:402)\n Read of size 2 at addr ffff888012ae31ac by task kworker/0:1/14\n The buggy address is located 172 bytes inside of allocated 173-byte region\n Workqueue: ksmbd-io handle_ksmbd_work\n Call Trace:\n ...\n kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:595)\n ksmbd_smb2_check_message (fs/smb/server/smb2misc.c:402)\n handle_ksmbd_work (fs/smb/server/server.c:119)\n process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3314)\n worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3397)\n kthread (kernel/kthread.c:436)\n ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158)\n ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245)\n\nReject any compound element that is too small to hold StructureSize2\nbefore dereferencing it." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"415d0fff0451ad7ad4caa910f2bb0f562f0fd60f"},{"version":"e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1b6740525f5af90868d557c31b496ae689c8c549"},{"version":"e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2c307126ed8e7adddab82b8e31d962d3a2156ab1"},{"version":"e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f7550a91ab211726f59cb137523b7a9eae1ac6eb"},{"version":"e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f0e337e7db67cc1c832958bbb6c4026bdceacfdb"},{"version":"e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ea128f06d2fb2186f0cac0c9f3e953e4d1f5c29a"},{"version":"e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"15b38176fd1530372905c602fde51fe89ec8c877"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.15.216","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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