{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-23220 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-23220 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Feb 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-23220 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-23220 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Feb 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-23220 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23220/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23220/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-23220","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23220/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-23220","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2026-23220","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23220","GHSA-9wwr-2jh3-482p","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2026-23220","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2026-23220","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2026-23220","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23220"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A flaw in the Linux kernel ksmbd module allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an infinite loop triggered by failed signature verification.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-835","name":"Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: fix infinite loop caused by next_smb2_rcv_hdr_off reset in error paths\n\nThe problem occurs when a signed request fails smb2 signature verification\ncheck. In __process_request(), if check_sign_req() returns an error,\nset_smb2_rsp_status(work, STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED) is called.\nset_smb2_rsp_status() set work-\u003enext_smb2_rcv_hdr_off as zero. By resetting\nnext_smb2_rcv_hdr_off to zero, the pointer to the next command in the chain\nis lost. Consequently, is_chained_smb2_message() continues to point to\nthe same request header instead of advancing. If the header's NextCommand\nfield is non-zero, the function returns true, causing __handle_ksmbd_work()\nto repeatedly process the same failed request in an infinite loop.\nThis results in the kernel log being flooded with \"bad smb2 signature\"\nmessages and high CPU usage.\n\nThis patch fixes the issue by changing the return value from\nSERVER_HANDLER_CONTINUE to SERVER_HANDLER_ABORT. This ensures that\nthe processing loop terminates immediately rather than attempting to\ncontinue from an invalidated offset.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"ksmbd: fix infinite loop caused by next_smb2_rcv_hdr_off reset in error paths","id":"CVE-2026-23220","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":7,"next":{"headline":"bus: fsl-mc: fix use-after-free in driver_override_show()","id":"CVE-2026-23221"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"mm/slab: Add alloc_tagging_slab_free_hook for memcg_alloc_abort_single","id":"CVE-2026-23219"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-02-18","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-06-02","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A flaw in the Linux kernel ksmbd module allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an infinite loop triggered by failed signature verification.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23220/"}