CVE 7.6 HIGH

smb: client: require a full NFS mode SID before reading mode bits_CVE-2026-43350

7.6 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: client: require a full NFS mode SID before reading mode bits

parse_dacl() treats an ACE SID matching sid_unix_NFS_mode as an NFS
mode SID and reads sid.sub_auth[2] to recover the mode bits.

That assumes the ACE carries three subauthorities, but compare_sids()
only compares min(a, b) subauthorities. A malicious server can return
an ACE with num_subauth = 2 and sub_auth[] = {88, 3}, which still
matches sid_unix_NFS_mode and then drives the sub_auth[2] read four
bytes past the end of the ACE.

Require num_subauth >= 3 before treating the ACE as an NFS mode SID.
This keeps the fix local to the special-SID mode path without changing
compare_sids() semantics for the rest of cifsacl.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-43350
Source Linux
Published May 8, 2026 at 13:41
Modified May 11, 2026 at 06:33

Affected Product

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Version e2f8fbfb8d09c06decde162090fac3ee220aa280
Affected Versions Linux Linux e2f8fbfb8d09c06decde162090fac3ee220aa280
Linux Linux e2f8fbfb8d09c06decde162090fac3ee220aa280
Linux Linux e2f8fbfb8d09c06decde162090fac3ee220aa280
Linux Linux e2f8fbfb8d09c06decde162090fac3ee220aa280
Linux Linux e2f8fbfb8d09c06decde162090fac3ee220aa280
Linux Linux 5.4

References

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