CVE-2026-31611 PUBLISHED

ksmbd: require 3 sub-authorities before reading sub_auth[2]

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 09.03.2026 Published: 24.04.2026 Updated: 25.04.2026

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

ksmbd: require 3 sub-authorities before reading sub_auth[2]

parse_dacl() compares each ACE SID against sid_unix_NFS_mode and on match reads sid.sub_auth[2] as the file mode. If sid_unix_NFS_mode is the prefix S-1-5-88-3 with num_subauth = 2 then compare_sids() compares only min(num_subauth, 2) sub-authorities so a client SID with num_subauth = 2 and sub_auth = {88, 3} will match.

If num_subauth = 2 and the ACE is placed at the very end of the security descriptor, sub_auth[2] will be 4 bytes past end_of_acl. The out-of-band bytes will then be masked to the low 9 bits and applied as the file's POSIX mode, probably not something that is good to have happen.

Fix this up by forcing the SID to actually carry a third sub-authority before reading it at all.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to 08f9e6d899b5c834bbcc239eae1bed58d9b15d2c (excl.)
  • affected from e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to d2454f4a002d08560a60f214f392e6491cf11560 (excl.)
  • affected from e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to 46bbcd3ebfb3549c8da1838fc4493e79bd3241e7 (excl.)
  • affected from e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to 9401f86a224f37b50e6a3ccf1d46a70d5ef8af0a (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.15 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.15 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.83 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.24 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.14 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.1 to 7.0.* (incl.)

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