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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68098"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:58:12.768Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:48:44.749Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-68098"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68098.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68098"
title: "ksmbd: bound DACL dedup walk to copied ACEs"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: bound DACL dedup walk to copied ACEs\n\nset_ntacl_dacl() can stop copying ACEs before consuming the full input\nDACL when size accounting overflows.\n\nWhen that happens, num_aces reflects only the ACEs that were actually\ncopied into the output DACL, but set_posix_acl_entries_dacl() still\nreceives nt_num_aces and uses it to walk the existing ACE array during\ndedup.\n\nThat makes the dedup walk scan past the copied ACE array and inspect\nbuffer tail that does not contain valid ACEs.\n\nSplit the two meanings currently carried by the NT ACE count. Pass the\nnumber of copied NT ACEs to bound the dedup walk, and preserve the\noriginal \"input DACL had NT ACEs\" state separately for the\nEveryone/default ACL fallback.\n\nThis keeps the dedup walk aligned with the ACEs that are actually\npresent in the rebuilt DACL."
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