CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-31705
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-05-01
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15.145 < 5.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1.71 < 6.2)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.6 < 6.6.136)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.84)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.25)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30010c952077a1c89ecdd71fc4d574c75a8f5617 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/790304c02bf9bd7b8171feda4294d6e62d32ae8f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/922d48fe8c19f388ffa2f709f33acaae4e408de2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98f3de6ef4efbd899348d333f0902dc4ff14380c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ddbbc8b2a09dd2cfed90871313e3691ae1db08a2 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffbce350c6fd1e99116ea57383b9031717e36d3b Patch
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.html cert-portal.siemens.com