CVE-2026-53390

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

HIGH
8.1
CVSS Score
Published: July 19, 2026 at 12:01 PM UTC
Updated: August 17, 2026 at 05:17 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH8.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%

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().

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≥ 7.0.25.15.210 ≤ v < 5.15.2126.1.176 ≤ v < 6.1.1776.12.84 ≤ v < 6.12.956.18.25 ≤ v < 6.18.386.6.140 ≤ v < 6.6.1447.0.2 ≤ v < 7.17.0.2 ≤ v < 7.1.37.1 ≤ v < 7.1.37.1 ≤ v < 7.2151b1799861fde38087c08f613abc2843ef597b0282cbbb476b9f35793452bc461934af4c7eca169325d4ac11f526cb8964cff14548ccf02d8c756d85.15.2106.1.1766.12.846.18.256.6.1407.0.290089584b2e25c4510b7b987387b4405f0673ece95e5aa3c3261da8c95b27d7aecf8ee39b9f86a4cd07b26f39246a82399661936dd0c853983cfade7f20adc4ef7428bc485ee83fd1a592252fb87718b
Vendor states this is fixed in 1ef06004ed4bd6d3ed8c840d9d1a376b66d4935b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 36599894fa8536fefdf1e296c0af71b8b7226859 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7627ff8c4f9919f14de562b0160ab4ec9d80b1f7 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 988c93d3bba066d8669143e6ec30bb2be9608d53 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c7488c85fd822959e9b5c22fbd9e7c8a21caf5e0 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d5c81a095c86fe507c032d08f3a8cfc518444927 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e36e35660adb9b8ef1435ac359151dda5f094c55 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.212 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.177 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.95 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.38 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.144 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

CVSS

8.1HIGHLinux
Vector?

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StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-125

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