CVE-2026-43362CWE-662CWE-787

CVE-2026-43362

High · published May 8, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
22.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: client: fix in-place encryption corruption in SMB2_write()

SMB2_write() places write payload in iov[1..n] as part of rq_iov.

smb3_init_transform_rq() pointer-shares rq_iov, so crypt_message()

encrypts iov[1] in-place, replacing the original plaintext with

ciphertext. On a replayable error, the retry sends the same iov[1]

which now contains ciphertext instead of the original data,

resulting in corruption.

The corruption is most likely to be observed when connections are

unstable, as reconnects trigger write retries that re-send the

already-encrypted data.

This affects SFU mknod, MF symlinks, etc. On kernels before

6.10 (prior to the netfs conversion), sync writes also used

this path and were similarly affected. The async write path

wasn't unaffected as it uses rq_iter which gets deep-copied.

Fix by moving the write payload into rq_iter via iov_iter_kvec(),

so smb3_init_transform_rq() deep-copies it before encryption.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00313 · 22.9th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-662 · Improper Synchronization; CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2026-05-08T19:16Z
Affected products (7)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.11, < 6.6.1306.6.130
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.786.12.78
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.18.196.18.19
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.19, < 6.19.96.19.9
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 MAY 14:21Z
    smb: client: fix in-place encryption corruption in SMB2_write()
    cvelistv5