# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98171"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:44:15.927Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:15:02.660Z"
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-2026-98171"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98171.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98171"
title: "smb: client: fix next_buffer UAF and NextCommand bounds in compound PDUs"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: fix next_buffer UAF and NextCommand bounds in compound PDUs\n\nFix several related bounds checking and pointer lifecycle issues in\nreceive_encrypted_standard()'s handling of compound encrypted frames:\n\n- Clear next_buffer after assigning it to server-\u003ebigbuf. A stale\n  next_buffer pointer can lead to a use-after-free on subsequent\n  error paths.\n- Update pdu_length to the decrypted plaintext size (buf_size). Using\n  the pre-decryption length allows NextCommand to point into stale\n  ciphertext residue.\n- Reject next_cmd values smaller than MID_HEADER_SIZE(server).\n- Fix an integer overflow in the upper bound check by verifying\n  pdu_length - next_cmd \u003c MID_HEADER_SIZE(server), ensuring the\n  trailing slice is large enough for a header."
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