CVE-2026-90174 — ksmbd: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in ksmbd_alloc_user()

2026-09-29T20:53:15.640917+00:00

Affected: Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ksmbd: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in ksmbd_alloc_user()

ksmbd_alloc_user() copies resp->hash_sz bytes out of the mountd IPC login response with

user->passkey_sz = resp->hash_sz; user->passkey = kmalloc(resp->hash_sz, KSMBD_DEFAULT_GFP); if (user->passkey) memcpy(user->passkey, resp->hash, resp->hash_sz);

resp->hash_sz is a __u16 supplied by the response, but resp->hash[] is only KSMBD_REQ_MAX_HASH_SZ bytes. A malformed or malicious login response can set hash_sz well beyond that (up to 65535), so the memcpy() reads past the end of the response object. ipc_validate_msg() does not bound hash_sz, so reject any response whose hash_sz exceeds the on-stack hash[] buffer before allocating and copying.

[ 2030.238706] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ksmbd_alloc_user+0x278/0x680 [ 2030.240549] Read of size 65535 at addr ffff888121bb6680 by task kworker/4:1/18611 [ 2030.242296] [ 2030.242710] CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 18611 Comm: kworker/4:1 Not tainted 7.1.0-next-20260623-virtme #96 PREEMPT(lazy) [ 2030.242732] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1 04/01/2014 [ 2030.242743] Workqueue: ksmbd-io handle_ksmbd_work [ 2030.242763] Call Trace: [ 2030.242769] [ 2030.242776] dump_stack_lvl+0xa2/0xd0 [ 2030.242794] print_address_description+0x77/0x200 [ 2030.242815] ? ksmbd_alloc_user+0x278/0x680 [ 2030.242831] print_report+0x58/0x70 [ 2030.242848] kasan_report+…

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CVE-2026-90174 — ksmbd: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in ksmbd_alloc_user()