In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: fix potential OOBs in smb2_parse_contexts()
Validate offsets and lengths before dereferencing create contexts in
smb2_parse_contexts().
This fixes following oops when accessing invalid create contexts from
server:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff8881178d8cc3
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 4a01067 P4D 4a01067 PUD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 3 PID: 1736 Comm: mount.cifs Not tainted 6.7.0-rc4 #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS
rel-1.16.2-3-gd478f380-rebuilt.opensuse.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:smb2_parse_contexts+0xa0/0x3a0 [cifs]
Code: f8 10 75 13 48 b8 93 ad 25 50 9c b4 11 e7 49 39 06 0f 84 d2 00
00 00 8b 45 00 85 c0 74 61 41 29 c5 48 01 c5 41 83 fd 0f 76 55 <0f> b7
7d 04 0f b7 45 06 4c 8d 74 3d 00 66 83 f8 04 75 bc ba 04 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc900007939e0 EFLAGS: 00010216
RAX: ffffc90000793c78 RBX: ffff8880180cc000 RCX: ffffc90000793c90
RDX: ffffc90000793cc0 RSI: ffff8880178d8cc0 RDI: ffff8880180cc000
RBP: ffff8881178d8cbf R08: ffffc90000793c22 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff8880180cc000 R11: 0000000000000024 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000020 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffc90000793c22
FS: 00007f873753cbc0(0000) GS:ffff88806bc00000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffff8881178d8cc3 CR3: 00000000181ca000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
? __die+0x23/0x70
? page_fault_oops+0x181/0x480
? search_module_extables+0x19/0x60
? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
? exc_page_fault+0x1b6/0x1c0
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
? smb2_parse_contexts+0xa0/0x3a0 [cifs]
SMB2_open+0x38d/0x5f0 [cifs]
? smb2_is_path_accessible+0x138/0x260 [cifs]
smb2_is_path_accessible+0x138/0x260 [cifs]
cifs_is_path_remote+0x8d/0x230 [cifs]
cifs_mount+0x7e/0x350 [cifs]
cifs_smb3_do_mount+0x128/0x780 [cifs]
smb3_get_tree+0xd9/0x290 [cifs]
vfs_get_tree+0x2c/0x100
? capable+0x37/0x70
path_mount+0x2d7/0xb80
? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x44/0x60
__x64_sys_mount+0x11a/0x150
do_syscall_64+0x47/0xf0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6f/0x77
RIP: 0033:0x7f8737657b1e
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (8.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 8.0 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 8.0 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 1.0% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-27). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it