# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68099"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:58:13.940Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-23T12:45:49.075Z"
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-2026-68099"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68099.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68099"
title: "ksmbd: restore DACL size on check_add_overflow() to avoid malformed ACL"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: restore DACL size on check_add_overflow() to avoid malformed ACL\n\ncheck_add_overflow() unconditionally writes the truncated sum into *d\neven on overflow, per its contract in include/linux/overflow.h.\nThe four check_add_overflow() guards in set_posix_acl_entries_dacl()\nand set_ntacl_dacl() break out of the ACE-building loops on overflow,\nbut the truncated *size is then consumed downstream at the end of\nset_ntacl_dacl():\n\n    pndacl-\u003esize = cpu_to_le16(le16_to_cpu(pndacl-\u003esize) + size);\n\nThis produces an on-wire NT ACL whose pndacl-\u003esize under-reports the\nbytes actually written by the preceding fill_ace_for_sid()/memcpy()\ncalls, yielding a malformed ACL that can trigger out-of-bounds reads\nwhen re-parsed by clients or ksmbd itself.\n\nRestore *size to its pre-addition value on each overflow branch (via\n`*size -= ace_sz` / `size -= nt_ace_size`) so that after the break,\n*size once again holds the cumulative size of the successfully-written\nACEs. The committed ACL is then truncated-but-self-consistent rather\nthan malformed.\n\nThe ksmbd DACL builders are the only check_add_overflow() sites found\nwhere an overflow path breaks out of a loop and the destination value\nis consumed afterward. The other nearby break-style cases either\nreturn -EINVAL on overflow (transport_ipc.c) or break without\nconsuming the overflowed destination value afterward (buildid.c)."
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