Bug 2541172 (CVE-2026-97561)

Summary: CVE-2026-97561 kernel: smb: client: honor forceuid/forcegid when mapping SIDs to uid/gid
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Server Message Block (SMB) client. When an administrator mounts a remote share with options configured to force specific local user and group ownership, the client fails to enforce these restrictions and instead accepts ownership values provided by the remote server. A malicious or untrusted SMB server can exploit this flaw during file or directory lookups to dictate local file ownership, potentially bypassing local access controls and leading to unauthorized access.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-25 10:54:31 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: client: honor forceuid/forcegid when mapping SIDs to uid/gid

When the administrator mounts with forceuid or forcegid (uid=/gid=
mount options), they expect all files to appear owned by the specified
user/group.  However, several code paths unconditionally called
sid_to_id() to overwrite cf_uid/cf_gid with server-provided values,
ignoring the administrator's explicit override:

  - smb311_posix_info_to_fattr() (stat via POSIX extensions)
  - cifs_posix_to_fattr() (readdir via POSIX extensions)
  - parse_sec_desc() (CIFS ACL ownership mapping)

This allowed an untrusted server to dictate local file ownership even
when the mount was configured to force specific uid/gid values.

Fix all three call sites to check CIFS_MOUNT_OVERR_UID and
CIFS_MOUNT_OVERR_GID before calling sid_to_id(), following the
same pattern already used by cifs_unix_basic_to_fattr() for unix
extensions.
Comment 1 gkamathe 2026-09-29 02:58:50 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2026/CVE-2026-97561.mbox