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 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 11.7%
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 (13)
Linux/Linux < 5.4
Linux/Linux 5.4
Linux/Linux 6.12.84 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.18.25 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 6.6.136 - 6.6.*
Linux/Linux 7.0.2 - 7.0.*
Linux/Linux 7.1-rc1
Linux/Linux e2f8fbfb8d09c06decde162090fac3ee220aa280 - 2757ad3e4b6f9e0fed4c7739594e702abc5cab21
Linux/Linux e2f8fbfb8d09c06decde162090fac3ee220aa280 - 38a69f08ee82c450d3e4168707fff2e317dc3ff7
Linux/Linux e2f8fbfb8d09c06decde162090fac3ee220aa280 - b53b8e98c23310294fc45fc686db5ee860311896
... and 3 more
Published May 08, 2026
Tracked Since May 08, 2026