CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-97555
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-25
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
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)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ee150794c75bcd0be0e24ff3394f433cbae18cc git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a9aee9ef5622d58d8aafaa3263b3ffe70e2d9dd git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7fa84c9ca690643f429ae2709584a47e74b572c9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5cea6766ae1868a51c7d17d77d065b4f55c587f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb736ab4fb8c4fdb8b2f9ccd3a62e03d11549ca1 git.kernel.org