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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-90174" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:07:01.106Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:50:17.993Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z" 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-2026-90174" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90174.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90174" title: "ksmbd: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in ksmbd_alloc_user()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in ksmbd_alloc_user()\n\nksmbd_alloc_user() copies resp-\u003ehash_sz bytes out of the mountd IPC\nlogin response with\n\n\tuser-\u003epasskey_sz = resp-\u003ehash_sz;\n\tuser-\u003epasskey = kmalloc(resp-\u003ehash_sz, KSMBD_DEFAULT_GFP);\n\tif (user-\u003epasskey)\n\t\tmemcpy(user-\u003epasskey, resp-\u003ehash, resp-\u003ehash_sz);\n\nresp-\u003ehash_sz is a __u16 supplied by the response, but resp-\u003ehash[] is\nonly KSMBD_REQ_MAX_HASH_SZ bytes. A malformed or malicious login\nresponse can set hash_sz well beyond that (up to 65535), so the memcpy()\nreads past the end of the response object. ipc_validate_msg() does not\nbound hash_sz, so reject any response whose hash_sz exceeds the on-stack\nhash[] buffer before allocating and copying.\n\n[ 2030.238706] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ksmbd_alloc_user+0x278/0x680\n[ 2030.240549] Read of size 65535 at addr ffff888121bb6680 by task kworker/4:1/18611\n[ 2030.242296]\n[ 2030.242710] CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 18611 Comm: kworker/4:1 Not tainted 7.1.0-next-20260623-virtme #96 PREEMPT(lazy)\n[ 2030.242732] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1 04/01/2014\n[ 2030.242743] Workqueue: ksmbd-io handle_ksmbd_work\n[ 2030.242763] Call Trace:\n[ 2030.242769] \u003cTASK\u003e\n[ 2030.242776] dump_stack_lvl+0xa2/0xd0\n[ 2030.242794] print_address_description+0x77/0x200\n[ 2030.242815] ? ksmbd_alloc_user+0x278/0x680\n[ 2030.242831] print_report+0x58/0x70\n[ 2030.242848] kasan_report+0x117/0x150\n[ 2030.242869] ? ksmbd_alloc_user+0x278/0x680\n[ 2030.242888] kasan_check_range+0x3c7/0x3f0\n[ 2030.242908] ? ksmbd_alloc_user+0x278/0x680\n[ 2030.242925] __asan_memcpy+0x29/0x70\n[ 2030.242942] ksmbd_alloc_user+0x278/0x680\n[ 2030.242960] ksmbd_login_user+0xc3/0x120\n[ 2030.242978] ntlm_authenticate+0x5e6/0x1b00\n[ 2030.243017] ? __pfx_ntlm_authenticate+0x10/0x10\n[ 2030.243035] ? ksmbd_session_lookup+0x188/0x1d0\n[ 2030.243054] ? __pfx_ksmbd_session_lookup+0x10/0x10\n[ 2030.243090] ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_switch+0x7b/0x140\n[ 2030.243108] smb2_sess_setup+0x1e4a/0x27b0\n[ 2030.243126] ? copy_from_kernel_nofault+0x199/0x300\n[ 2030.243156] ? __pfx_smb2_sess_setup+0x10/0x10\n[ 2030.243173] ? get_smb2_cmd_val+0xe3/0x1c0\n[ 2030.243208] handle_ksmbd_work+0x954/0x1280\n[ 2030.243230] ? __pfx_handle_ksmbd_work+0x10/0x10\n[ 2030.243249] ? process_scheduled_works+0xa07/0x1490\n[ 2030.243270] ? process_scheduled_works+0xa07/0x1490\n[ 2030.243291] process_scheduled_works+0xa70/0x1490\n[ 2030.243320] ? __pfx_process_scheduled_works+0x10/0x10\n[ 2030.243340] ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x130/0x300\n[ 2030.243358] ? lock_is_held_type+0x7b/0x110\n[ 2030.243388] worker_thread+0x932/0xe20\n[ 2030.243415] kthread+0x38a/0x470\n[ 2030.243431] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n[ 2030.243451] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[ 2030.243467] ret_from_fork+0x484/0x910\n[ 2030.243485] ? __pfx_ret_from_fork+0x10/0x10\n[ 2030.243501] ? __switch_to+0xc77/0x12c0\n[ 2030.243523] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[ 2030.243540] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n[ 2030.243564] \u003c/TASK\u003e\n[ 2030.243570]\n[ 2030.290164] Allocated by task 19279:\n[ 2030.290911] kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80\n[ 2030.292179] __kasan_kmalloc+0x72/0x90\n[ 2030.293217] __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x3ff/0x6b0\n[ 2030.294467] handle_generic_event+0x59b/0x750\n[ 2030.295345] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x238/0x340\n[ 2030.296553] genl_rcv_msg+0x606/0x7b0\n[ 2030.297129] netlink_rcv_skb+0x22b/0x4a0\n[ 2030.298500] genl_rcv+0x2d/0x40\n[ 2030.299273] netlink_unicast+0x7ba/0x930\n[ 2030.300019] netlink_sendmsg+0x8c3/0xb00\n[ 2030.301073] __sock_sendmsg+0xec/0x140\n[ 2030.301579] __sys_sendto+0x357/0x470\n[ 2030.302255] __x64_sys_sendto+0xe3/0x100\n[ 2030.303425] do_syscall_64+0x135/0x460\n[ 2030.304763] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n[ 2030.305594]\n[ 2030.305819] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888121bb6640\n[ 2030.305819] which belongs to the cache kmalloc-192 of size 192\n[ 2030.309595] The buggy address \n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"67223b1150a9edea52350d8cd085ea9081beaa45"},{"version":"e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"863f74ad158fef2987b9146f29d4b3149bb95953"},{"version":"e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"272c05a51285fe3495ab2f7eb77a48ad831b929f"},{"version":"e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"497c221bf6b2f659511719a6acfae84cc1be1caf"},{"version":"e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7405d0ba294306721843bc551611775e6edef516"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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