{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-98168 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-98168 is a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux, published on 6 Oct 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-98168 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-98168 is a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux, published on 6 Oct 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-98168 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. 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-2026-98168/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98168/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-98168","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98168/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-98168","record":{"aliases":["AZL-106338","BELL-CVE-2026-98168","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-98168","GHSA-p97w-7qmq-228w","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-98168"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service","code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel SMB client","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A malicious SMB server can trigger out-of-bounds reads in the Linux kernel CIFS client, potentially causing a crash or code execution.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"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.","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":"smb: client: fix reparse buffer bounds in cifs_query_reparse_point()","id":"CVE-2026-98168","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"smb: client: fix potential OOB read in smb3_enum_snapshots()","id":"CVE-2026-98169"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"smb: client: fix server-\u003etotal_read for compound encrypted PDUs","id":"CVE-2026-98167"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-10-06","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-21","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A malicious SMB server can trigger out-of-bounds reads in the Linux kernel CIFS client, potentially causing a crash or code execution.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98168/"}