CVE-2026-31476: ksmbd: do not expire session on binding failure
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: do not expire session on binding failure When a multichannel session binding request fails (e.g. wrong password), the error path unconditionally sets sess->state = SMB2_SESSION_EXPIRED. However, during binding, sess points to the target session looked up via ksmbd_session_lookup_slowpath() -- which belongs to another connection's user. This allows a remote attacker to invalidate any active session by simply sending a binding request with a wrong password (DoS). Fix this by skipping session expiration when the failed request was a binding attempt, since the session does not belong to the current connection. The reference taken by ksmbd_session_lookup_slowpath() is still correctly released via ksmbd_user_session_put().
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 8.2
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- 0
- Affected Products
- 2
Fix available
- Linux / Linux< f5300690c23c5ac860499bb37dbc09cf43fd62e6 (from f5a544e3bab78142207e0242d22442db85ba1eff) · < 6fafc4c4238e538969f1375f9ecdc6587c53f1cc (from f5a544e3bab78142207e0242d22442db85ba1eff) · < 1d1888b4a7aec518b707f6eca0bf08992c0e8da3 (from f5a544e3bab78142207e0242d22442db85ba1eff) · < a897064a457056acb976e20e3007cdf553de340f (from f5a544e3bab78142207e0242d22442db85ba1eff) · < e0e5edc81b241c70355217de7e120c97c3429deb (from f5a544e3bab78142207e0242d22442db85ba1eff) · < 9bbb19d21ded7d78645506f20d8c44895e3d0fb9 (from f5a544e3bab78142207e0242d22442db85ba1eff)
- Linux / Linux5.15Fixed in 0, 6.1.168, 6.6.131, 6.12.80, 6.18.21, 6.19.11, 7.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H