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HIGH

ksmbd IPC Response Overflow

CVE-2026-31707

CVSS 7.1 / 10.0 NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

KernelScan AI7.1HIGH

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: validate response sizes in ipc_validate_msg() ipc_validate_msg() computes the expected message size for each response type by adding (or multiplying) attacker-controlled fields from the daemon response to a fixed struct size in unsigned int arithmetic. Three cases can overflow: KSMBD_EVENT_RPC_REQUEST: msg_sz = sizeof(struct ksmbd_rpc_command) + resp->payload_sz; KSMBD_EVENT_SHARE_CONFIG_REQUEST: msg_sz = sizeof(struct ksmbd_share_config_response) + resp->payload_sz; KSMBD_EVENT_LOGIN_REQUEST_EXT: msg_sz = sizeof(struct ksmbd_login_response_ext) + resp->ngroups * sizeof(gid_t); resp->payload_sz is __u32 and resp->ngroups is __s32. Each addition can wrap in unsigned int; the multiplication by sizeof(gid_t) mixes signed and size_t, so a negative ngroups is converted to SIZE_MAX before the multiply. A wrapped value of msg_sz that happens to equal entry->msg_sz bypasses the size check on the next line, and downstream consumers (smb2pdu.c:6742 memcpy using rpc_resp->payload_sz, kmemdup in ksmbd_alloc_user using resp_ext->ngroups) then trust the unverified length. Use check_add_overflow() on the RPC_REQUEST and SHARE_CONFIG_REQUEST paths to detect integer overflow without constraining functional payload size; userspace ksmbd-tools grows NDR responses in 4096-byte chunks for calls like NetShareEnumAll, so a hard transport cap is unworkable on the response side. For LOGIN_REQUEST_EXT, reject resp->ngroups outside the signed [0, NGROUPS_MAX] range up front and report the error from ipc_validate_msg() so it fires at the IPC boundary; with that bound the subsequent multiplication and addition stay well below UINT_MAX. The now-redundant ngroups check and pr_err in ksmbd_alloc_user() are removed. This is the response-side analogue of aab98e2dbd64 ("ksmbd: fix integer overflows on 32 bit systems"), which hardened the request side.

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Engine v0.2.0

Risk summary

An attacker who can control responses from the ksmbd userspace daemon can cause integer overflow in size calculations, potentially bypassing buffer size validation. This could lead to out-of-bounds memory operations in downstream code that trusts the unvalidated lengths, potentially resulting in memory corruption or information disclosure.

Affectedfs/smb/server/transport_ipc.c

Vulnerability analysis

Root Cause: The ipc_validate_msg() function performs unsafe arithmetic on attacker-controlled fields from daemon responses. Three specific cases can overflow: (1) KSMBD_EVENT_RPC_REQUEST adds resp->payload_sz (__u32) to struct size in unsigned int arithmetic, (2) KSMBD_EVENT_SHARE_CONFIG_REQUEST performs similar addition, and (3) KSMBD_EVENT_LOGIN_REQUEST_EXT multiplies resp->ngroups (__s32) by sizeof(gid_t), where negative ngroups values get converted to SIZE_MAX before multiplication. When these calculations wrap around and the resulting msg_sz happens to equal entry->msg_sz, the size validation is bypassed.

Attack Surface: This vulnerability affects the ksmbd (kernel SMB daemon) IPC interface that processes responses from the userspace ksmbd daemon. An attacker would need to compromise the userspace daemon or inject malicious responses into the IPC channel. The vulnerability is reachable through SMB/CIFS network operations that trigger RPC requests, share configuration requests, or extended login requests.

Fix Mechanism: The patch adds proper overflow detection using check_add_overflow() for the RPC_REQUEST and SHARE_CONFIG_REQUEST cases to catch integer wraparound. For LOGIN_REQUEST_EXT, it validates resp->ngroups is within the valid range [0, NGROUPS_MAX] before performing arithmetic, ensuring the subsequent multiplication and addition cannot overflow. The redundant validation in ksmbd_alloc_user() is removed since validation now occurs at the IPC boundary.

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BranchFixed inPatch commit
6.126.12.847dd0c858e190
6.186.18.25299db777ea0c
6.66.6.141bf3962084183
7.07.0.299c631d0366c
mainline7.1-rc1d6a6aa81eac2