smb: client: validate the whole DACL before rewriting it in cifsacl (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-31709
HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.34 % · percentile 28 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: validate the whole DACL before rewriting it in cifsacl build_sec_desc() and id_mode_to_cifs_acl() derive a DACL pointer from a server-supplied dacloffset and then use the incoming ACL to rebuild the chmod/chown security descriptor. The original fix only checked that the struct smb_acl header fits before reading dacl_ptr->size or dacl_ptr->num_aces. That avoids the immediate header-field OOB read, but the rewrite helpers still walk ACEs based on pdacl->num_aces with no structural validation of the incoming DACL body. A malicious server can return a truncated DACL that still contains a header, claims one or more ACEs, and then drive replace_sids_and_copy_aces() or set_chmod_dacl() past the validated extent while they compare or copy attacker-controlled ACEs. Factor the DACL structural checks into validate_dacl(), extend them to validate each ACE against the DACL bounds, and use the shared validator before the chmod/chown rebuild paths. parse_dacl() reuses the same validator so the read-side parser and write-side rewrite paths agree on what constitutes a well-formed incoming DACL.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-1288 — Improper Validation of Consistency within Input
  • CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hredhat-SADP
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected bc3e9dd9d104ca1b75644eab87b38ce8a924aef4 < b8603d9ae6c9087662b098619996bc4a8064319d ; affected bc3e9dd9d104ca1b75644eab87b38ce8a924aef4 < c2abdebf72000a64603ced84d36ccbd164f11391 ; affected bc3e9dd9d104ca1b75644eab87b38ce8a924aef4 < 8e47d297e7cf9a6029a0d38e7b22faba7d7aaf12 ; affected bc3e9dd9d104ca1b75644eab87b38ce8a924aef4 < d92f3f0b22414e7515696a02224d0af55e3004a3 ; affected bc3e9dd9d104ca1b75644eab87b38ce8a924aef4 < ff0ca46b13b9ef6edbcd238a3b6caacfef8ba0e5 ; affected bc3e9dd9d104ca1b75644eab87b38ce8a924aef4 < b78db9bddc84136f6a0bb49e8883cf200dfb87a8
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.12 ; unaffected 0 < 5.12 ; unaffected 5.15.210 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.176 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.140 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.86 ≤ 6.12.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD