ksmbd: fix out-of-bounds write in smb2_get_ea() EA alignment (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-31705
CRITICAL 9.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.40 % · percentile 34 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix out-of-bounds write in smb2_get_ea() EA alignment smb2_get_ea() applies 4-byte alignment padding via memset() after writing each EA entry. The bounds check on buf_free_len is performed before the value memcpy, but the alignment memset fires unconditionally afterward with no check on remaining space. When the EA value exactly fills the remaining buffer (buf_free_len == 0 after value subtraction), the alignment memset writes 1-3 NUL bytes past the buf_free_len boundary. In compound requests where the response buffer is shared across commands, the first command (e.g., READ) can consume most of the buffer, leaving a tight remainder for the QUERY_INFO EA response. The alignment memset then overwrites past the physical kvmalloc allocation into adjacent kernel heap memory. Add a bounds check before the alignment memset to ensure buf_free_len can accommodate the padding bytes. This is the same bug pattern fixed by commit beef2634f81f ("ksmbd: fix potencial OOB in get_file_all_info() for compound requests") and commit fda9522ed6af ("ksmbd: fix OOB write in QUERY_INFO for compound requests"), both of which added bounds checks before unconditional writes in QUERY_INFO response handlers.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 9f297df20d93411c0b4ddad7f88ba04a7cd36e77 < ddbbc8b2a09dd2cfed90871313e3691ae1db08a2 ; affected e2b76ab8b5c9327ab2dae6da05d0752eb2f4771d < ffbce350c6fd1e99116ea57383b9031717e36d3b ; affected e2b76ab8b5c9327ab2dae6da05d0752eb2f4771d < 98f3de6ef4efbd899348d333f0902dc4ff14380c ; affected e2b76ab8b5c9327ab2dae6da05d0752eb2f4771d < 790304c02bf9bd7b8171feda4294d6e62d32ae8f ; affected e2b76ab8b5c9327ab2dae6da05d0752eb2f4771d < 922d48fe8c19f388ffa2f709f33acaae4e408de2 ; affected e2b76ab8b5c9327ab2dae6da05d0752eb2f4771d < 30010c952077a1c89ecdd71fc4d574c75a8f5617
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.6 ; unaffected 0 < 6.6 ; unaffected 6.1.175 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.136 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.84 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.25 ≤ 6.18.*

Sources

SourceLicence
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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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