CVE-2026-46195 PUBLISHED

smb: client: validate dacloffset before building DACL pointers

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 13.05.2026 Published: 28.05.2026 Updated: 30.05.2026

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

smb: client: validate dacloffset before building DACL pointers

parse_sec_desc(), build_sec_desc(), and the chown path in id_mode_to_cifs_acl() all add the server-supplied dacloffset to pntsd before proving a DACL header fits inside the returned security descriptor.

On 32-bit builds a malicious server can return dacloffset near U32_MAX, wrap the derived DACL pointer below end_of_acl, and then slip past the later pointer-based bounds checks. build_sec_desc() and id_mode_to_cifs_acl() can then dereference DACL fields from the wrapped pointer in the chmod/chown rewrite paths.

Validate dacloffset numerically before building any DACL pointer and reuse the same helper at the three DACL entry points.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.8

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from bc3e9dd9d104ca1b75644eab87b38ce8a924aef4 to ba7f71b6161c0943dafc367565e5843d16b7d505 (excl.)
  • affected from bc3e9dd9d104ca1b75644eab87b38ce8a924aef4 to 3b1ddba19e77ee35241cd27f16dc3e8d14e08db7 (excl.)
  • affected from bc3e9dd9d104ca1b75644eab87b38ce8a924aef4 to c688f3ed73d31943334ad2139cb02ec49664322a (excl.)
  • affected from bc3e9dd9d104ca1b75644eab87b38ce8a924aef4 to 8bd07e417b6bda67e317920584e48cb6ee442a8a (excl.)
  • affected from bc3e9dd9d104ca1b75644eab87b38ce8a924aef4 to f98b48151cc502ada59d9778f0112d21f2586ca3 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.12 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.12 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.140 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.88 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.30 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.7 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1-rc3 to * (incl.)

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