CVE-2026-53390

HIGH

ksmbd: fix out-of-bounds read in smb_check_perm_dacl()

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix out-of-bounds read in smb_check_perm_dacl() The permission-check ACE walk in smb_check_perm_dacl() validates the ACE header size and caps sid.num_subauth at SID_MAX_SUB_AUTHORITIES, but it never checks that ace->size is actually large enough to contain num_subauth sub-authorities before compare_sids() dereferences them. CIFS_SID_BASE_SIZE covers the SID header up to but excluding the sub_auth[] array, and offsetof(struct smb_ace, sid) is the ACE header, so the existing guards only guarantee the 8-byte SID base, i.e. zero sub-authorities. compare_sids() then reads ace->sid.sub_auth[i] for i < min(local_sid->num_subauth, ace->sid.num_subauth). The local comparison SIDs (sid_everyone, sid_unix_NFS_mode, and the id_to_sid() result) always have at least one sub-authority, and an attacker controls the ACE revision and authority bytes (which lie within the in-bounds SID base), so they can match one of those SIDs and force the sub_auth read. A crafted ACE with size == 16 and num_subauth >= 1 placed at the tail of the security descriptor therefore causes a heap out-of-bounds read of up to SID_MAX_SUB_AUTHORITIES * sizeof(__le32) bytes past the pntsd allocation. The security descriptor is loaded by ksmbd_vfs_get_sd_xattr() into a buffer sized exactly to the on-disk data (kzalloc(sd_size) in ndr_decode_v4_ntacl()), so the read lands past the allocation. The malformed descriptor can be stored verbatim via SMB2_SET_INFO (the DACL is not normalised before being written to the security.NTACL xattr) and the read fires on a subsequent SMB2_CREATE access check, making this reachable by an authenticated client on a share that uses ACL xattrs. Add the missing num_subauth-versus-ace_size check, mirroring the identical guards already present in the sibling parsers parse_dacl() and smb_inherit_dacl().

Scores

CVSS v3 8.1
EPSS 0.0047
EPSS Percentile 38.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (34)
linux/Kernel < 5.15.212linux
linux/Kernel < 6.1.177linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.177linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.18.38linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 7.1.3linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.144linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.95linux
Linux/Linux < 7.1
Linux/Linux 151b1799861fde38087c08f613abc2843ef597b0
Linux/Linux 282cbbb476b9f35793452bc461934af4c7eca169
... and 24 more
Published Jul 19, 2026
Tracked Since Jul 19, 2026