CVE-2026-68099 PUBLISHED

ksmbd: restore DACL size on check_add_overflow() to avoid malformed ACL

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: restore DACL size on check_add_overflow() to avoid malformed ACL

check_add_overflow() unconditionally writes the truncated sum into d even on overflow, per its contract in include/linux/overflow.h. The four check_add_overflow() guards in set_posix_acl_entries_dacl() and set_ntacl_dacl() break out of the ACE-building loops on overflow, but the truncated size is then consumed downstream at the end of set_ntacl_dacl():

<pre>pndacl->size = cpu_to_le16(le16_to_cpu(pndacl->size) + size); </pre>

This produces an on-wire NT ACL whose pndacl->size under-reports the bytes actually written by the preceding fill_ace_for_sid()/memcpy() calls, yielding a malformed ACL that can trigger out-of-bounds reads when re-parsed by clients or ksmbd itself.

Restore size to its pre-addition value on each overflow branch (via *size -= ace_sz / size -= nt_ace_size) so that after the break, size once again holds the cumulative size of the successfully-written ACEs. The committed ACL is then truncated-but-self-consistent rather than malformed.

The ksmbd DACL builders are the only check_add_overflow() sites found where an overflow path breaks out of a loop and the destination value is consumed afterward. The other nearby break-style cases either return -EINVAL on overflow (transport_ipc.c) or break without consuming the overflowed destination value afterward (buildid.c).

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 8d5729350b236896f51379588d9a690b7fafb8db to f4fcd0c1a243d449307b887fafee23921e9db5ab (excl.)
  • affected from e1955a94b6f17f4b058afa955a6f187eb3ed7615 to 0bf38372821b1526f31538a7d9811844c55c7f38 (excl.)
  • affected from 5e7b8f3c539d69b2ed5f2408e2f75e68ce7eef43 to 847ecd4eb3c117c3d2f13f1e7ab506543aad8183 (excl.)
  • affected from 299f962c0b02d048fb45d248b4da493d03f3175d to bc90144ce8bb7fcf05ad9417c7adb4e9509d9e13 (excl.)
  • affected from 299f962c0b02d048fb45d248b4da493d03f3175d to bbf0a8e931204ecdab494a88d43b0a24a04285c5 (excl.)
  • Version 41e53a773db6342ac9a689ee5ba635c31744c9f0 is affected
  • Version ef7902be3f215b6bf7babe4dc9dd9a7d57dad7a7 is affected
  • affected from 6.6.136 to 6.6.148 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.12.84 to 6.12.101 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.18.25 to 6.18.42 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.1.175 to 6.2 (excl.)
  • affected from 7.0.2 to 7.1 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 7.1 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 7.1 (excl.)
  • 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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