# 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-2026-98168"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:44:13.534Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:54:47.190Z"
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-2026-98168"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98168.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98168"
title: "smb: client: fix reparse buffer bounds in cifs_query_reparse_point()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: fix reparse buffer bounds in cifs_query_reparse_point()\n\nIn cifs_query_reparse_point(), the start \u003e= end check before casting to\nstruct reparse_data_buffer * only ensures the start pointer is within the\nresponse. It fails to verify that there is enough space remaining for the\nfixed 8-byte header of the structure.\n\nIf a server provides a DataOffset that leaves less than 8 bytes remaining,\nthe check passes, but subsequent reads of ReparseTag and ReparseDataLength\nwill occur out-of-bounds.\n\nFix this by ensuring the remaining space is at least the size of the\nreparse_data_buffer structure before accessing its fields."
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