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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53390"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T12:01:54.951Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:50:41.549Z"
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-2026-53390"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53390.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53390"
title: "ksmbd: fix out-of-bounds read in smb_check_perm_dacl()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: fix out-of-bounds read in smb_check_perm_dacl()\n\nThe permission-check ACE walk in smb_check_perm_dacl() validates the ACE\nheader size and caps sid.num_subauth at SID_MAX_SUB_AUTHORITIES, but it\nnever checks that ace-\u003esize is actually large enough to contain\nnum_subauth sub-authorities before compare_sids() dereferences them.\n\nCIFS_SID_BASE_SIZE covers the SID header up to but excluding the\nsub_auth[] array, and offsetof(struct smb_ace, sid) is the ACE header,\nso the existing guards only guarantee the 8-byte SID base, i.e. zero\nsub-authorities. compare_sids() then reads ace-\u003esid.sub_auth[i] for\ni \u003c min(local_sid-\u003enum_subauth, ace-\u003esid.num_subauth). The local\ncomparison SIDs (sid_everyone, sid_unix_NFS_mode, and the id_to_sid()\nresult) always have at least one sub-authority, and an attacker controls\nthe ACE revision and authority bytes (which lie within the in-bounds SID\nbase), so they can match one of those SIDs and force the sub_auth read.\n\nA crafted ACE with size == 16 and num_subauth \u003e= 1 placed at the tail of\nthe security descriptor therefore causes a heap out-of-bounds read of up\nto SID_MAX_SUB_AUTHORITIES * sizeof(__le32) bytes past the pntsd\nallocation. The security descriptor is loaded by ksmbd_vfs_get_sd_xattr()\ninto a buffer sized exactly to the on-disk data (kzalloc(sd_size) in\nndr_decode_v4_ntacl()), so the read lands past the allocation. The\nmalformed descriptor can be stored verbatim via SMB2_SET_INFO (the DACL\nis not normalised before being written to the security.NTACL xattr) and\nthe read fires on a subsequent SMB2_CREATE access check, making this\nreachable by an authenticated client on a share that uses ACL xattrs.\n\nAdd the missing num_subauth-versus-ace_size check, mirroring the\nidentical guards already present in the sibling parsers parse_dacl() and\nsmb_inherit_dacl()."
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