CVE-2026-43350: smb: client: require a full NFS mode SID before reading mode bits
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: require a full NFS mode SID before reading mode bits parse_dacl() treats an ACE SID matching sid_unix_NFS_mode as an NFS mode SID and reads sid.sub_auth[2] to recover the mode bits. That assumes the ACE carries three subauthorities, but compare_sids() only compares min(a, b) subauthorities. A malicious server can return an ACE with num_subauth = 2 and sub_auth[] = {88, 3}, which still matches sid_unix_NFS_mode and then drives the sub_auth[2] read four bytes past the end of the ACE. Require num_subauth >= 3 before treating the ACE as an NFS mode SID. This keeps the fix local to the special-SID mode path without changing compare_sids() semantics for the rest of cifsacl.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.6
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- 0
- Affected Products
- 2
Fix available
- Linux / Linux< b53b8e98c23310294fc45fc686db5ee860311896 (from e2f8fbfb8d09c06decde162090fac3ee220aa280) · < c8eef12af1cc73031639ea7cf16e0b10e2536b0b (from e2f8fbfb8d09c06decde162090fac3ee220aa280) · < 38a69f08ee82c450d3e4168707fff2e317dc3ff7 (from e2f8fbfb8d09c06decde162090fac3ee220aa280) · < f8488c07bea2431ee12a6067d736578064fa46b4 (from e2f8fbfb8d09c06decde162090fac3ee220aa280) · < 2757ad3e4b6f9e0fed4c7739594e702abc5cab21 (from e2f8fbfb8d09c06decde162090fac3ee220aa280)
- Linux / Linux5.4Fixed 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:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H