CVE-2026-90166

CVE-2026-90166

published September 17, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
10.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

smb/server: fix null-ptr-deref in ksmbd_ipc_tree_connect_request()

See the procedure below:

ksmbd_tree_conn_connect

ksmbd_share_config_get

share->name = kstrdup() // fail

if (!test_share_config_flag(share, KSMBD_SHARE_FLAG_PIPE)) // false

// do not check `share->name`

ksmbd_ipc_tree_connect_request

strlen(share->name) // null-ptr-deref

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00209 · 10.5th percentile
Published
2026-09-17T21:17Z
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 SEP 03:55Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 17 SEP 16:06Z
    smb/server: fix null-ptr-deref in ksmbd_ipc_tree_connect_request()
    cvelistv5