smb: client: validate the whole DACL before rewriting it in cifsacl
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.8epss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 82% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: validate the whole DACL before rewriting it in cifsacl
build_sec_desc() and id_mode_to_cifs_acl() derive a DACL pointer from a
server-supplied dacloffset and then use the incoming ACL to rebuild the
chmod/chown security descriptor.
The original fix only checked that the struct smb_acl header fits before
reading dacl_ptr->size or dacl_ptr->num_aces. That avoids the immediate
header-field OOB read, but the rewrite helpers still walk ACEs based on
pdacl->num_aces with no structural validation of the incoming DACL body.
A malicious server can return a truncated DACL that still contains a
header, claims one or more ACEs, and then drive
replace_sids_and_copy_aces() or set_chmod_dacl() past the validated
extent while they compare or copy attacker-controlled ACEs.
Factor the DACL structural checks into validate_dacl(), extend them to
validate each ACE against the DACL bounds, and use the shared validator
before the chmod/chown rebuild paths. parse_dacl() reuses the same
validator so the read-side parser and write-side rewrite paths agree on
what constitutes a well-formed incoming DACL.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21556https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21706https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21745https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22900https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22940https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:23224https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:23237https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:23329https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24343https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-31709https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2464476https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a8cf165566ba55a39fd0f4de172119dd646d39a