ksmbd: fix out-of-bounds read in smb_check_perm_dacl()
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
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | 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 | 5.15.212, 6.1.177, 6.6.144, 6.12.95, 6.18.38, 7.1 | Patch available | CNA |
| Linux | Linux | 7.1 and later | 5.15.212, 6.1.177, 6.6.144, 6.12.95, 6.18.38, 7.1.3, 7.2 | Patch available | CNA |
- 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
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
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-53390
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-xg8q-rr62-82pp
- 2026-10-16 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-16 CVSS score added · Red Hat
References
Patch 7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7488c85fd822959e9b5c22fbd9e7c8a21caf5e0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/988c93d3bba066d8669143e6ec30bb2be9608d53
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36599894fa8536fefdf1e296c0af71b8b7226859
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5c81a095c86fe507c032d08f3a8cfc518444927
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7627ff8c4f9919f14de562b0160ab4ec9d80b1f7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e36e35660adb9b8ef1435ac359151dda5f094c55
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ef06004ed4bd6d3ed8c840d9d1a376b66d4935b
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Sources
- CVE-2026-53390 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-53390 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-xg8q-rr62-82pp · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-53390 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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