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CVE-2026-31432

high

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix OOB write in QUERY_INFO for compound requests When a compound request such as…

Vendor / product: Linux — linux kernel

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix OOB write in QUERY_INFO for compound requests When a compound request such as READ + QUERY_INFO(Security) is received, and the first command (READ) consumes most of the response buffer, ksmbd could write beyond the allocated buffer while building a security descriptor. The root cause was that smb2_get_info_sec() checked buffer space using ppntsd_size from xattr, while build_sec_desc() often synthesized a significantly larger descriptor from POSIX ACLs. This patch introduces smb_acl_sec_desc_scratch_len() to accurately compute the final descriptor size beforehand, performs proper buffer checking with smb2_calc_max_out_buf_len(), and uses exact-sized allocation + iov pinning.

CVSS
8.8
8.8 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-04-22 09:16
Modified: 2026-10-30 13:18
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-30 13:38 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

linux / linux_kernel ≥5.15.145 <5.16, ≥6.1.71 <6.2, ≥6.6 <6.12.81, ≥6.13 <6.18.22, ≥6.19 <6.19.12, 7.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/075ea208c648cc2bcd616295b711d3637c61de45
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/515c2daab46021221bdf406bef19bc90a44ec617
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d48c64fb80ad78b3dd29fb7d79b6ec7bd72bfc09
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fda9522ed6afaec45cabc198d8492270c394c7bc

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-30 13:38 UTC · record ↗

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