smb: client: fix heap overflow in DACL owner/group rewrite
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 5 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix heap overflow in DACL owner/group rewrite When id_mode_to_cifs_acl rewrites an existing DACL, it allocates a buffer sized according to the on-disk DACL length reported by dacl_ptr->size. However, replace_sids_and_copy_aces may rewrite each ACE with a new owner/group SID obtained from the cifs.idmap upcall. Those SIDs can have up to SID_MAX_SUB_AUTHORITIES (15) sub-authorities, making each ACE up to 76 bytes (sizeof(struct smb_ace)). If the original DACL contains short SIDs (e.g., 1 sub-authority) while the replacement SIDs are long, the rewritten ACEs overflow the allocation. Fix this by always budgeting for worst-case SID expansion: allocate sizeof(struct smb_acl) plus num_aces * sizeof(struct smb_ace), which covers the smb_acl header and room for every ACE at maximum SID size. This replaces the previous split logic that used dacl_ptr->size for cifsacl mounts but num_aces * sizeof(struct smb_ace) for mode_from_sid mounts: both paths can trigger the same rewrite and need the same headroom. KASAN reports this as: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in build_sec_desc+0x1e8a/0x2680 [cifs] Write of size 4 at addr ffff8881a5e25374 by task chown/5298 ... The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of allocated 884-byte region [ffff8881a5e25000, ffff8881a5e25374)
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.15.224, 6.1.191, 6.6.158, 6.12.111, 6.18.53, 7.2.7, 7.3
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 | Affected | No fix yet |
Not affected: 3 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-97555
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-3qpp-vv65-cq9g
- 2026-10-03 Fix available: Linux/[email protected], Linux/Linux@d5cea6766ae1868a51c7d17d77d065b4f55c587f · CNA
- 2026-10-03 1 new reference · CNA
- 2026-10-19 Fix available: Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-30 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: Linux/Linux@4e78b5ff13214353750b87283ff79f62510f5844, Linux/[email protected], Linux/[email protected] +1 · CNA
- 2026-10-30 2 new references · CNA
References
Other 7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e78b5ff13214353750b87283ff79f62510f5844
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63c2fbde15ffc9a0c21adf670c38d028e20fa65c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5cea6766ae1868a51c7d17d77d065b4f55c587f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb736ab4fb8c4fdb8b2f9ccd3a62e03d11549ca1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7fa84c9ca690643f429ae2709584a47e74b572c9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a9aee9ef5622d58d8aafaa3263b3ffe70e2d9dd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ee150794c75bcd0be0e24ff3394f433cbae18cc
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Sources
- CVE-2026-97555 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-97555 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-3qpp-vv65-cq9g · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-97555 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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