CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-31705

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2026-05-01 Modified 2026-10-15 Official page ↗
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