CVE-2026-68097 PUBLISHED

ksmbd: validate ACE size against SID sub-authorities

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 30.07.2026 Published: 10.08.2026 Updated: 10.08.2026

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

ksmbd: validate ACE size against SID sub-authorities

set_ntacl_dacl() validates sid.num_subauth before copying an ACE, but does not verify that the declared ACE size contains all sub-authorities described by that field. An undersized ACE can therefore be copied and later make the POSIX ACL deduplication walk inspect data beyond the copied ACE boundary.

The existing initial bound check is also too small. It only ensures that the ACE size field is accessible before set_ntacl_dacl() reads sid.num_subauth farther into the input buffer.

Require enough input for the fixed SID header before accessing num_subauth, reject ACEs smaller than that header, and skip ACEs whose declared size cannot contain the complete SID. This makes the validation consistent with the other ACE walk paths.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to b7cb5bf0855470799f12da825de91e48951b3876 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 62d80d7c2d9428085e7458ad4c06ca8c0984039b (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 337022d9dfac441c3b35e4455a51aa981996e02e (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 61fd3559199f7fa693dcbff35e59477e24af041a (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 5152c6d49e3fd4e9f2e857c57527aead752f1f87 (excl.)
  • affected from 0 to 6.6.148 (excl.)
  • affected from 0 to 6.12.101 (excl.)
  • affected from 0 to 6.18.42 (excl.)
  • affected from 0 to 7.1.6 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • unaffected from 6.6.148 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.101 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.42 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.6 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc5 to * (incl.)

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