CVE-2026-43350

HIGH

smb: client: require a full NFS mode SID before reading mode bits

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: require a full NFS mode SID before reading mode bits parse_dacl() treats an ACE SID matching sid_unix_NFS_mode as an NFS mode SID and reads sid.sub_auth[2] to recover the mode bits. That assumes the ACE carries three subauthorities, but compare_sids() only compares min(a, b) subauthorities. A malicious server can return an ACE with num_subauth = 2 and sub_auth[] = {88, 3}, which still matches sid_unix_NFS_mode and then drives the sub_auth[2] read four bytes past the end of the ACE. Require num_subauth >= 3 before treating the ACE as an NFS mode SID. This keeps the fix local to the special-SID mode path without changing compare_sids() semantics for the rest of cifsacl.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.6
EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 13.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (27)
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.210linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.175linux
linux/Kernel 5.4.0 - 5.10.259linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.18.25linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 7.0.2linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.136linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.84linux
Linux/Linux < 5.4
Linux/Linux 5.10.259 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.210 - 5.15.*
... and 17 more
Published May 08, 2026
Tracked Since May 08, 2026