CVE-2026-43362 PUBLISHED

smb: client: fix in-place encryption corruption in SMB2_write()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 01.05.2026 Published: 08.05.2026 Updated: 09.05.2026

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

smb: client: fix in-place encryption corruption in SMB2_write()

SMB2_write() places write payload in iov[1..n] as part of rq_iov. smb3_init_transform_rq() pointer-shares rq_iov, so crypt_message() encrypts iov[1] in-place, replacing the original plaintext with ciphertext. On a replayable error, the retry sends the same iov[1] which now contains ciphertext instead of the original data, resulting in corruption.

The corruption is most likely to be observed when connections are unstable, as reconnects trigger write retries that re-send the already-encrypted data.

This affects SFU mknod, MF symlinks, etc. On kernels before 6.10 (prior to the netfs conversion), sync writes also used this path and were similarly affected. The async write path wasn't unaffected as it uses rq_iter which gets deep-copied.

Fix by moving the write payload into rq_iter via iov_iter_kvec(), so smb3_init_transform_rq() deep-copies it before encryption.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 026e93dc0a3eefb0be060bcb9ecd8d7a7fd5c398 to 438e77435aee2894d5edf90be5c87004a57f6258 (excl.)
  • affected from 026e93dc0a3eefb0be060bcb9ecd8d7a7fd5c398 to 52327268224fb9ccc7ecfbbdfdfff54b6e93c518 (excl.)
  • affected from 026e93dc0a3eefb0be060bcb9ecd8d7a7fd5c398 to 92e64f1852f455f57d0850989e57c30d7fac7d95 (excl.)
  • affected from 026e93dc0a3eefb0be060bcb9ecd8d7a7fd5c398 to aea5e37388a080361110ab5790f57ae0af383650 (excl.)
  • affected from 026e93dc0a3eefb0be060bcb9ecd8d7a7fd5c398 to d78840a6a38d312dc1a51a65317bb67e46f0b929 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.11 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.11 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.130 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.78 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.19 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.9 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0 to * (incl.)

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