Bug 2356924 (CVE-2025-21994) - CVE-2025-21994 kernel: ksmbd: fix incorrect validation for num_aces field of smb_acl
Summary: CVE-2025-21994 kernel: ksmbd: fix incorrect validation for num_aces field of ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-21994
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-04-02 15:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-04-03 04:04 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-04-02 15:01:14 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ksmbd: fix incorrect validation for num_aces field of smb_acl

parse_dcal() validate num_aces to allocate posix_ace_state_array.

if (num_aces > ULONG_MAX / sizeof(struct smb_ace *))

It is an incorrect validation that we can create an array of size ULONG_MAX.
smb_acl has ->size field to calculate actual number of aces in request buffer
size. Use this to check invalid num_aces.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-04-03 03:43:07 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025040214-CVE-2025-21994-44bf@gregkh/T


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