Bug 2468110 (CVE-2026-43350) - CVE-2026-43350 kernel: smb: client: require a full NFS mode SID before reading mode bits
Summary: CVE-2026-43350 kernel: smb: client: require a full NFS mode SID before readin...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-43350
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-05-08 14:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-05-11 17:36 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-08 14:05:00 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: client: require a full NFS mode SID before reading mode bits

parse_dacl() treats an ACE SID matching sid_unix_NFS_mode as an NFS
mode SID and reads sid.sub_auth[2] to recover the mode bits.

That assumes the ACE carries three subauthorities, but compare_sids()
only compares min(a, b) subauthorities.  A malicious server can return
an ACE with num_subauth = 2 and sub_auth[] = {88, 3}, which still
matches sid_unix_NFS_mode and then drives the sub_auth[2] read four
bytes past the end of the ACE.

Require num_subauth >= 3 before treating the ACE as an NFS mode SID.
This keeps the fix local to the special-SID mode path without changing
compare_sids() semantics for the rest of cifsacl.


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