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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-46139"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-28T09:35:55.234Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-14T17:57:22.559Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46139"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46139.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46139"
title: "smb: client: use kzalloc to zero-initialize security descriptor buffer"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: use kzalloc to zero-initialize security descriptor buffer\n\nCommit 62e7dd0a39c2d (\"smb: common: change the data type of num_aces\nto le16\") split struct smb_acl's __le32 num_aces field into __le16\nnum_aces and __le16 reserved. The reserved field corresponds to Sbz2\nin the MS-DTYP ACL wire format, which must be zero [1].\n\nWhen building an ACL descriptor in build_sec_desc(), we are using a\nkmalloc()'ed descriptor buffer and writing the fields explicitly using\nle16() writes now. This never writes to the 2 byte reserved field,\nleaving it as uninitialized heap data.\n\nWhen the reserved field happens to contain non-zero slab garbage,\nSamba rejects the security descriptor with \"ndr_pull_security_descriptor\nfailed: Range Error\", causing chmod to fail with EINVAL.\n\nChange kmalloc() to kzalloc() to ensure the entire buffer is\nzero-initialized.\n\n\n[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-dtyp/20233ed8-a6c6-4097-aafa-dd545ed24428"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1593ddb37bd124c131fe635397df68e854a03108","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4c3ed344a970aad51388ac3b0145b98318f0e21f"},{"version":"da087905e3270e2291c0afae39a28e7d183e5ec3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"941a1e6eb35440336913afc88a82103291956d5d"},{"version":"62e7dd0a39c2d0d7ff03274c36df971f1b3d2d0d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"be1ef9512a3f5a755895c24f31b334342f4aa15b"},{"version":"62e7dd0a39c2d0d7ff03274c36df971f1b3d2d0d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9bdb2ca31368b7671949dfb94a5d57ffccd01edd"},{"version":"62e7dd0a39c2d0d7ff03274c36df971f1b3d2d0d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5e489c6c47a2ac15edbaca153b9348e42c1eacab"},{"version":"191f2f444745087c3c51fd6042a0e25f42315ab0","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.12.23","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.88"},{"version":"6.13.11","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"},{"version":"6.12.88","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.30","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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