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

Published Sep 17, 2026
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Updated

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

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

ksmbdallocuser() copies resp->hashsz bytes out of the mountd IPC login response with

user->passkeysz = resp->hashsz; user->passkey = kmalloc(resp->hashsz, KSMBDDEFAULTGFP); if (user->passkey) memcpy(user->passkey, resp->hash, resp->hashsz);

resp->hashsz is a u16 supplied by the response, but resp->hash[] is only KSMBDREQMAXHASHSZ bytes. A malformed or malicious login response can set hashsz well beyond that (up to 65535), so the memcpy() reads past the end of the response object. ipcvalidatemsg() does not bound hashsz, so reject any response whose hashsz exceeds the on-stack hash[] buffer before allocating and copying.

[ 2030.238706] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ksmbdallocuser+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 handleksmbdwork [ 2030.242763] Call Trace: [ 2030.242769] <TASK> [ 2030.242776] dumpstacklvl+0xa2/0xd0 [ 2030.242794] printaddressdescription+0x77/0x200 [ 2030.242815] ? ksmbdallocuser+0x278/0x680 [ 2030.242831] printreport+0x58/0x70 [ 2030.242848] kasanreport+0x117/0x150 [ 2030.242869] ? ksmbdallocuser+0x278/0x680 [ 2030.242888] kasancheckrange+0x3c7/0x3f0 [ 2030.242908] ? ksmbdallocuser+0x278/0x680 [ 2030.242925] asanmemcpy+0x29/0x70 [ 2030.242942] ksmbdallocuser+0x278/0x680 [ 2030.242960] ksmbdloginuser+0xc3/0x120 [ 2030.242978] ntlmauthenticate+0x5e6/0x1b00 [ 2030.243017] ? pfxntlmauthenticate+0x10/0x10 [ 2030.243035] ? ksmbdsessionlookup+0x188/0x1d0 [ 2030.243054] ? pfxksmbdsessionlookup+0x10/0x10 [ 2030.243090] ? sanitizercovtraceswitch+0x7b/0x140 [ 2030.243108] smb2sesssetup+0x1e4a/0x27b0 [ 2030.243126] ? copyfromkernelnofault+0x199/0x300 [ 2030.243156] ? pfxsmb2sesssetup+0x10/0x10 [ 2030.243173] ? getsmb2cmdval+0xe3/0x1c0 [ 2030.243208] handleksmbdwork+0x954/0x1280 [ 2030.243230] ? pfxhandleksmbdwork+0x10/0x10 [ 2030.243249] ? processscheduledworks+0xa07/0x1490 [ 2030.243270] ? processscheduledworks+0xa07/0x1490 [ 2030.243291] processscheduledworks+0xa70/0x1490 [ 2030.243320] ? pfxprocessscheduledworks+0x10/0x10 [ 2030.243340] ? dorawspinlock+0x130/0x300 [ 2030.243358] ? lockisheldtype+0x7b/0x110 [ 2030.243388] workerthread+0x932/0xe20 [ 2030.243415] kthread+0x38a/0x470 [ 2030.243431] ? pfxworkerthread+0x10/0x10 [ 2030.243451] ? pfxkthread+0x10/0x10 [ 2030.243467] retfromfork+0x484/0x910 [ 2030.243485] ? pfxretfromfork+0x10/0x10 [ 2030.243501] ? switchto+0xc77/0x12c0 [ 2030.243523] ? pfxkthread+0x10/0x10 [ 2030.243540] retfromforkasm+0x1a/0x30 [ 2030.243564] </TASK> [ 2030.243570] [ 2030.290164] Allocated by task 19279: [ 2030.290911] kasansavetrack+0x3e/0x80 [ 2030.292179] kasankmalloc+0x72/0x90 [ 2030.293217] kvmallocnodenoprof+0x3ff/0x6b0 [ 2030.294467] handlegenericevent+0x59b/0x750 [ 2030.295345] genlfamilyrcvmsgdoit+0x238/0x340 [ 2030.296553] genlrcvmsg+0x606/0x7b0 [ 2030.297129] netlinkrcvskb+0x22b/0x4a0 [ 2030.298500] genlrcv+0x2d/0x40 [ 2030.299273] netlinkunicast+0x7ba/0x930 [ 2030.300019] netlinksendmsg+0x8c3/0xb00 [ 2030.301073] socksendmsg+0xec/0x140 [ 2030.301579] syssendto+0x357/0x470 [ 2030.302255] x64syssendto+0xe3/0x100 [ 2030.303425] dosyscall64+0x135/0x460 [ 2030.304763] entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x77/0x7f [ 2030.305594] [ 2030.305819] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888121bb6640 [ 2030.305819] which belongs to the cache kmalloc-192 of size 192 [ 2030.309595] The buggy address ---truncated---

Affected Software

1 affected component
Linux Kernel

Event History

Sep 17, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·04:07 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·04:07 PM
Description

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