CVE-2026-31705: ksmbd: fix out-of-bounds write in smb2_get_ea() EA alignment
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix out-of-bounds write in smb2_get_ea() EA alignment smb2_get_ea() applies 4-byte alignment padding via memset() after writing each EA entry. The bounds check on buf_free_len is performed before the value memcpy, but the alignment memset fires unconditionally afterward with no check on remaining space. When the EA value exactly fills the remaining buffer (buf_free_len == 0 after value subtraction), the alignment memset writes 1-3 NUL bytes past the buf_free_len boundary. In compound requests where the response buffer is shared across commands, the first command (e.g., READ) can consume most of the buffer, leaving a tight remainder for the QUERY_INFO EA response. The alignment memset then overwrites past the physical kvmalloc allocation into adjacent kernel heap memory. Add a bounds check before the alignment memset to ensure buf_free_len can accommodate the padding bytes. This is the same bug pattern fixed by commit beef2634f81f ("ksmbd: fix potencial OOB in get_file_all_info() for compound requests") and commit fda9522ed6af ("ksmbd: fix OOB write in QUERY_INFO for compound requests"), both of which added bounds checks before unconditional writes in QUERY_INFO response handlers.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 9.8
- Severity
- CRITICAL
- Fixed in
- 0
- Affected Products
- 2
Fix available
- Linux / Linux< ffbce350c6fd1e99116ea57383b9031717e36d3b (from e2b76ab8b5c9327ab2dae6da05d0752eb2f4771d) · < 98f3de6ef4efbd899348d333f0902dc4ff14380c (from e2b76ab8b5c9327ab2dae6da05d0752eb2f4771d) · < 790304c02bf9bd7b8171feda4294d6e62d32ae8f (from e2b76ab8b5c9327ab2dae6da05d0752eb2f4771d) · < 922d48fe8c19f388ffa2f709f33acaae4e408de2 (from e2b76ab8b5c9327ab2dae6da05d0752eb2f4771d) · < 30010c952077a1c89ecdd71fc4d574c75a8f5617 (from e2b76ab8b5c9327ab2dae6da05d0752eb2f4771d) · f2283680a80571ca82d710bc6ecd8f8beac67d63
- Linux / Linux6.6Fixed in 0, 6.6.136, 6.12.84, 6.18.25, 7.0.2, 7.1-rc1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H