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TI-2026-38476 Aliases CVE-2026-53390GHSA-xg8q-rr62-82pp

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

Priority LOW 36CWE-125Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · None · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

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().

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.0047 40th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Linux (Linux): 5.15.212, 6.1.177, 6.6.144 +5

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
LinuxLinux5.15.210 to before 5.15.212; 6.1.176 to before 6.1.177; 6.6.140 to before 6.6.144; 6.12.84 to before 6.12.95; 6.18.25 to before 6.18.38; 7.0.2 to before 7.15.15.212, 6.1.177, 6.6.144, 6.12.95, 6.18.38, 7.1Patch availableCNA
LinuxLinux7.1 and later5.15.212, 6.1.177, 6.6.144, 6.12.95, 6.18.38, 7.1.3, 7.2Patch availableCNA
  • Linux VendorLinux Affected 5.15.210 to before 5.15.212; 6.1.176 to before 6.1.177; 6.6.140 to before 6.6.144; 6.12.84 to before 6.12.95; 6.18.25 to before 6.18.38; 7.0.2 to before 7.1 Fixed in 5.15.212, 6.1.177, 6.6.144, 6.12.95, 6.18.38, 7.1 Patch available CNA
  • Linux VendorLinux Affected 7.1 and later Fixed in 5.15.212, 6.1.177, 6.6.144, 6.12.95, 6.18.38, 7.1.3, 7.2 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 2

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*5.15.210 to before 5.15.212; 6.6.140 to before 6.6.144; 6.12.84 to before 6.12.95; 6.18.25 to before 6.18.38; 7.0.2 to before 7.1.3VulnerableLinux
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1.176:*:*:*:*:*:*:*6.1.176VulnerableLinux
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 5.15.210 to before 5.15.212; 6.6.140 to before 6.6.144; 6.12.84 to before 6.12.95; 6.18.25 to before 6.18.38; 7.0.2 to before 7.1.3 Vulnerable ·Linux
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1.176:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 6.1.176 Vulnerable ·Linux

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.15.212, 6.1.177, 6.6.144, 6.12.95, 6.18.38, 7.1
  • Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.15.212, 6.1.177, 6.6.144, 6.12.95, 6.18.38, 7.1.3, 7.2

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 5 products
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-53390
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-xg8q-rr62-82pp
  3. 2026-10-16 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
  4. 2026-10-16 CVSS score added · Red Hat

References

  • TI-2025-26358 tls: fix handling of zero-length records on the rx_list KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2026-38352 netfilter: bridge: make ebt_snat ARP rewrite writable KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2013-05264 The (1) get_user and (2) put_user API functions in the Linux kernel before 3.5.5 on the… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2022-00125 Integer overflow in kernel KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4
  • TI-2013-01864 The perf_swevent_init function in kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.9… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4
  • TI-2021-05514 Heap Out-Of-Bounds Write in Netfilter IP6T_SO_SET_REPLACE KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.3
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