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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-97560" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:21:49.462Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:09:23.264Z" 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-2026-97560" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97560.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97560" title: "smb: client: fix one-byte OOB read in smb2_parse_native_symlink()" summary: "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 \u003cTASK\u003e\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" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"430afd3edabf942a908570e5a41414bb455f15f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ff411fcbfc55eec1d66ea82483d254319dc8e973"},{"version":"fc5a409552be479715b147748f2f61b41b512976","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"22a9d0a9ba0c89be57558c1aa80dc60a571dd89c"},{"version":"723f4ef90452aa629f3d923e92e0449d69362b1d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d1f173d28e964ba2c3c4ebe7491d594dc8c77a40"},{"version":"723f4ef90452aa629f3d923e92e0449d69362b1d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2a302fdbaf7dd00d285303c94af8f48321c22993"},{"version":"723f4ef90452aa629f3d923e92e0449d69362b1d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cb26524ef4ac28fcfa554c0656e8dc412c38a8ff"},{"version":"c9280c017ea13ff8678ef4f1ea78a4b683292e8b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.6.64","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.158"},{"version":"6.12.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.111"},{"version":"6.11.11","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.13"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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