CVE-2026-53390
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2026
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
ksmbd: fix out-of-bounds read in smb_check_perm_dacl()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix out-of-bounds read in smb_check_perm_dacl() The permission-check ACE walk in smb_check_perm_dacl() validates the ACE header size and caps sid.num_subauth at SID_MAX_SUB_AUTHORITIES, but it never checks that ace->size is actually large enough to contain num_subauth sub-authorities before compare_sids() dereferences them. CIFS_SID_BASE_SIZE covers the SID header up to but excluding the sub_auth[] array, and offsetof(struct smb_ace, sid) is the ACE header, so the existing guards only guarantee the 8-byte SID base, i.e. zero sub-authorities. compare_sids() then reads ace->sid.sub_auth[i] for i < min(local_sid->num_subauth, ace->sid.num_subauth). The local comparison SIDs (sid_everyone, sid_unix_NFS_mode, and the id_to_sid() result) always have at least one sub-authority, and an attacker controls the ACE revision and authority bytes (which lie within the in-bounds SID base), so they can match one of those SIDs and force the sub_auth read. A crafted ACE with size == 16 and num_subauth >= 1 placed at the tail of the security descriptor therefore causes a heap out-of-bounds read of up to SID_MAX_SUB_AUTHORITIES * sizeof(__le32) bytes past the pntsd allocation. The security descriptor is loaded by ksmbd_vfs_get_sd_xattr() into a buffer sized exactly to the on-disk data (kzalloc(sd_size) in ndr_decode_v4_ntacl()), so the read lands past the allocation. The malformed descriptor can be stored verbatim via SMB2_SET_INFO (the DACL is not normalised before being written to the security.NTACL xattr) and the read fires on a subsequent SMB2_CREATE access check, making this reachable by an authenticated client on a share that uses ACL xattrs. Add the missing num_subauth-versus-ace_size check, mirroring the identical guards already present in the sibling parsers parse_dacl() and smb_inherit_dacl().
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 282cbbb476b9f35793452bc461934af4c7eca169 | affected | git | c7488c85fd822959e9b5c22fbd9e7c8a21caf5e0 | Unavailable | None listed |
| f20adc4ef7428bc485ee83fd1a592252fb87718b | affected | git | 988c93d3bba066d8669143e6ec30bb2be9608d53 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 325d4ac11f526cb8964cff14548ccf02d8c756d8 | affected | git | 36599894fa8536fefdf1e296c0af71b8b7226859 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 95e5aa3c3261da8c95b27d7aecf8ee39b9f86a4c | affected | git | d5c81a095c86fe507c032d08f3a8cfc518444927 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 90089584b2e25c4510b7b987387b4405f0673ece | affected | git | 7627ff8c4f9919f14de562b0160ab4ec9d80b1f7 | Unavailable | None listed |
| d07b26f39246a82399661936dd0c853983cfade7 | affected | git | e36e35660adb9b8ef1435ac359151dda5f094c55 | Unavailable | None listed |
| d07b26f39246a82399661936dd0c853983cfade7 | affected | git | 1ef06004ed4bd6d3ed8c840d9d1a376b66d4935b | Unavailable | None listed |
| 151b1799861fde38087c08f613abc2843ef597b0 | affected | git | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.15.210 | affected | semver | 5.15.212 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.1.176 | affected | semver | 6.1.177 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.6.140 | affected | semver | 6.6.144 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.12.84 | affected | semver | 6.12.95 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.18.25 | affected | semver | 6.18.38 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 7.0.2 | affected | semver | 7.1 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 7.1 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.15.212 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 6.1.177 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.1.* | None listed |
| 6.6.144 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.12.95 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.12.* | None listed |
| 6.18.38 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.18.* | None listed |
| 7.1.3 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 7.1.* | None listed |
| 7.2 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |