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CVE-2026-31704

medium

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: use check_add_overflow() to prevent u16 DACL size overflow set_posix_acl_entries_d…

Vendor / product: Linux — linux kernel

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: use check_add_overflow() to prevent u16 DACL size overflow set_posix_acl_entries_dacl() and set_ntacl_dacl() accumulate ACE sizes in u16 variables. When a file has many POSIX ACL entries, the accumulated size can wrap past 65535, causing the pointer arithmetic (char *)pndace + *size to land within already-written ACEs. Subsequent writes then overwrite earlier entries, and pndacl->size gets a truncated value. Use check_add_overflow() at each accumulation point to detect the wrap before it corrupts the buffer, consistent with existing check_mul_overflow() usage elsewhere in smbacl.c.

CVSS
5.5
5.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-05-01 14:16
Modified: 2026-11-11 21:10
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 5 hours ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-11 21:11 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 <6.6.136, ≥6.7 <6.12.84, ≥6.13 <6.18.25, ≥6.19 <7.0.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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/299f962c0b02d048fb45d248b4da493d03f3175d
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e7b8f3c539d69b2ed5f2408e2f75e68ce7eef43
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d5729350b236896f51379588d9a690b7fafb8db
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1955a94b6f17f4b058afa955a6f187eb3ed7615
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef7902be3f215b6bf7babe4dc9dd9a7d57dad7a7

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-11 21:11 UTC · record ↗

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