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CVE-2026-31432

ksmbd: fix OOB write in QUERY_INFO for compound requests

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Fix
Fixed in 5.16, 6.2
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Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix OOB write in QUERY_INFO for compound requests When a compound request such as READ + QUERY_INFO(Security) is received, and the first command (READ) consumes most of the response buffer, ksmbd could write beyond the allocated buffer while building a security descriptor. The root cause was that smb2_get_info_sec() checked buffer space using ppntsd_size from xattr, while build_sec_desc() often synthesized a significantly larger descriptor from POSIX ACLs. This patch introduces smb_acl_sec_desc_scratch_len() to accurately compute the final descriptor size beforehand, performs proper buffer checking with smb2_calc_max_out_buf_len(), and uses exact-sized allocation + iov pinning.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From 5.15.145 · fixed in 5.16; From 6.1.71 · fixed in 6.2

  • Linux Linux

    6.6

References 5

git.kernel.org