# 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-2026-97554"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:21:45.851Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:53:14.914Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-97554"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97554.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97554"
title: "smb: client: avoid using uninitialized SIDs in cifs_posix_to_fattr()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: avoid using uninitialized SIDs in cifs_posix_to_fattr()\n\ncifs_posix_to_fattr() ignores the return value of posix_info_parse().\nWhen a malformed POSIX directory entry is encountered (e.g. invalid\nSID lengths from an untrusted server), posix_info_parse() returns -1\nwithout populating the 'parsed' struct.  The uninitialized stack\nmemory in parsed.owner and parsed.group is then passed to\nsid_to_id(), which processes the garbage bytes and passes them to\nrequest_key() to construct a SID string, potentially leaking kernel\nstack contents to the userspace idmap daemon.\n\nFix this by checking the return value and skipping the SID-to-id\nmapping when parsing fails.  The remaining fattr fields (timestamps,\nmode, etc.) are populated directly from the 'info' pointer so they\nare unaffected."
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