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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53383"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T11:59:31.616Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:50:33.785Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
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-2026-53383"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53383.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53383"
title: "ksmbd: reject non-VALID session in compound request branch"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: reject non-VALID session in compound request branch\n\nsmb2_check_user_session() takes a shortcut for any operation that is not\nthe first in a COMPOUND request: it reuses work-\u003esess (the session bound by\nthe first operation) and validates only the SessionId, then returns\n\"valid\". It never re-checks work-\u003esess-\u003estate == SMB2_SESSION_VALID, and a\nSessionId of 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF (ULLONG_MAX, the MS-SMB2 related-operation\nvalue) skips even the id comparison. The standalone path\n(ksmbd_session_lookup_all() plus the SESSION_SETUP state machine) does\nenforce the VALID state; the compound branch bypasses all of it.\n\nA SESSION_SETUP carrying only an NTLM Type-1 (NtLmNegotiate) blob publishes\na fresh SMB2_SESSION_IN_PROGRESS session whose sess-\u003euser is still NULL\n(-\u003euser is assigned later, by ntlm_authenticate()). Used as operation 1 of\na COMPOUND with operation 2 = TREE_CONNECT (related, SessionId=ULLONG_MAX,\n\\\\host\\IPC$), the tree-connect then runs on that IN_PROGRESS session and\nreaches ksmbd_ipc_tree_connect_request(), which dereferences\nuser_name(sess-\u003euser) with sess-\u003euser == NULL (transport_ipc.c:687/701/704)\n-\u003e remote NULL-pointer dereference and a kernel Oops that wedges the ksmbd\nworker for all clients.\n\nReject any non-first compound operation that lands on a session which is\nnot SMB2_SESSION_VALID, mirroring the validity the standalone lookup path\nenforces. SESSION_SETUP itself legitimately runs on an IN_PROGRESS session,\nbut it is never carried as a non-first compound operation, so multi-leg\nauthentication is unaffected by this check."
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