CVE-2026-68130 PUBLISHED

ksmbd: defer destroy_previous_session() until after NTLM authentication

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: defer destroy_previous_session() until after NTLM authentication

In ntlm_authenticate(), destroy_previous_session() is called using a user pointer resolved from the client-supplied NTLM blob username field before the NTLMv2 response is validated. An authenticated attacker can set the NTLM blob username to match a victim account and set PreviousSessionId to the victim's session ID; destroy_previous_session() destroys the victim's session while ksmbd_decode_ntlmssp_auth_blob() subsequently rejects the request with -EPERM.

Move destroy_previous_session() and the prev_id assignment to after ksmbd_decode_ntlmssp_auth_blob() returns success and use sess->user rather than the pre-authentication lookup result. This matches the ordering already used by krb5_authenticate(), where destroy_previous_session() is called only after ksmbd_krb5_authenticate() returns success.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to 5c833074b549e5db125436a6f681af682261f785 (excl.)
  • affected from e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to 243f1614ef2aca2d62a744575f1c24b07cd42757 (excl.)
  • affected from e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to 18705cace0619fd2123737dcd028147774f38181 (excl.)
  • affected from e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to 0ff12308c8a6c16ab68f0a487ffa93d69001dc18 (excl.)
  • affected from e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to c74801ee524f477c174a1899782b6c3b6918d407 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.15 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.15 (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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