{"id":"CVE-2026-90174","summary":"ksmbd: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in ksmbd_alloc_user()","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in ksmbd_alloc_user()\n\nksmbd_alloc_user() copies resp-\u003ehash_sz bytes out of the mountd IPC\nlogin response with\n\n\tuser-\u003epasskey_sz = resp-\u003ehash_sz;\n\tuser-\u003epasskey = kmalloc(resp-\u003ehash_sz, KSMBD_DEFAULT_GFP);\n\tif (user-\u003epasskey)\n\t\tmemcpy(user-\u003epasskey, resp-\u003ehash, resp-\u003ehash_sz);\n\nresp-\u003ehash_sz is a __u16 supplied by the response, but resp-\u003ehash[] is\nonly KSMBD_REQ_MAX_HASH_SZ bytes.  A malformed or malicious login\nresponse can set hash_sz well beyond that (up to 65535), so the memcpy()\nreads past the end of the response object.  ipc_validate_msg() does not\nbound hash_sz, so reject any response whose hash_sz exceeds the on-stack\nhash[] buffer before allocating and copying.\n\n[ 2030.238706] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ksmbd_alloc_user+0x278/0x680\n[ 2030.240549] Read of size 65535 at addr ffff888121bb6680 by task kworker/4:1/18611\n[ 2030.242296]\n[ 2030.242710] CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 18611 Comm: kworker/4:1 Not tainted 7.1.0-next-20260623-virtme #96 PREEMPT(lazy)\n[ 2030.242732] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1 04/01/2014\n[ 2030.242743] Workqueue: ksmbd-io handle_ksmbd_work\n[ 2030.242763] Call Trace:\n[ 2030.242769]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[ 2030.242776]  dump_stack_lvl+0xa2/0xd0\n[ 2030.242794]  print_address_description+0x77/0x200\n[ 2030.242815]  ? ksmbd_alloc_user+0x278/0x680\n[ 2030.242831]  print_report+0x58/0x70\n[ 2030.242848]  kasan_report+0x117/0x150\n[ 2030.242869]  ? ksmbd_alloc_user+0x278/0x680\n[ 2030.242888]  kasan_check_range+0x3c7/0x3f0\n[ 2030.242908]  ? ksmbd_alloc_user+0x278/0x680\n[ 2030.242925]  __asan_memcpy+0x29/0x70\n[ 2030.242942]  ksmbd_alloc_user+0x278/0x680\n[ 2030.242960]  ksmbd_login_user+0xc3/0x120\n[ 2030.242978]  ntlm_authenticate+0x5e6/0x1b00\n[ 2030.243017]  ? __pfx_ntlm_authenticate+0x10/0x10\n[ 2030.243035]  ? ksmbd_session_lookup+0x188/0x1d0\n[ 2030.243054]  ? __pfx_ksmbd_session_lookup+0x10/0x10\n[ 2030.243090]  ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_switch+0x7b/0x140\n[ 2030.243108]  smb2_sess_setup+0x1e4a/0x27b0\n[ 2030.243126]  ? copy_from_kernel_nofault+0x199/0x300\n[ 2030.243156]  ? __pfx_smb2_sess_setup+0x10/0x10\n[ 2030.243173]  ? get_smb2_cmd_val+0xe3/0x1c0\n[ 2030.243208]  handle_ksmbd_work+0x954/0x1280\n[ 2030.243230]  ? __pfx_handle_ksmbd_work+0x10/0x10\n[ 2030.243249]  ? process_scheduled_works+0xa07/0x1490\n[ 2030.243270]  ? process_scheduled_works+0xa07/0x1490\n[ 2030.243291]  process_scheduled_works+0xa70/0x1490\n[ 2030.243320]  ? __pfx_process_scheduled_works+0x10/0x10\n[ 2030.243340]  ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x130/0x300\n[ 2030.243358]  ? lock_is_held_type+0x7b/0x110\n[ 2030.243388]  worker_thread+0x932/0xe20\n[ 2030.243415]  kthread+0x38a/0x470\n[ 2030.243431]  ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n[ 2030.243451]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[ 2030.243467]  ret_from_fork+0x484/0x910\n[ 2030.243485]  ? __pfx_ret_from_fork+0x10/0x10\n[ 2030.243501]  ? __switch_to+0xc77/0x12c0\n[ 2030.243523]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[ 2030.243540]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n[ 2030.243564]  \u003c/TASK\u003e\n[ 2030.243570]\n[ 2030.290164] Allocated by task 19279:\n[ 2030.290911]  kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80\n[ 2030.292179]  __kasan_kmalloc+0x72/0x90\n[ 2030.293217]  __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x3ff/0x6b0\n[ 2030.294467]  handle_generic_event+0x59b/0x750\n[ 2030.295345]  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x238/0x340\n[ 2030.296553]  genl_rcv_msg+0x606/0x7b0\n[ 2030.297129]  netlink_rcv_skb+0x22b/0x4a0\n[ 2030.298500]  genl_rcv+0x2d/0x40\n[ 2030.299273]  netlink_unicast+0x7ba/0x930\n[ 2030.300019]  netlink_sendmsg+0x8c3/0xb00\n[ 2030.301073]  __sock_sendmsg+0xec/0x140\n[ 2030.301579]  __sys_sendto+0x357/0x470\n[ 2030.302255]  __x64_sys_sendto+0xe3/0x100\n[ 2030.303425]  do_syscall_64+0x135/0x460\n[ 2030.304763]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n[ 2030.305594]\n[ 2030.305819] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888121bb6640\n[ 2030.305819]  which belongs to the cache kmalloc-192 of size 192\n[ 2030.309595] The buggy address \n---truncated---","modified":"2026-09-18T03:48:36.177910681Z","published":"2026-09-17T16:07:01.106Z","database_specific":{"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/90xxx/CVE-2026-90174.json","cna_assigner":"Linux"},"references":[{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/497c221bf6b2f659511719a6acfae84cc1be1caf"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7405d0ba294306721843bc551611775e6edef516"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/90xxx/CVE-2026-90174.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-90174"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9"},{"fixed":"497c221bf6b2f659511719a6acfae84cc1be1caf"},{"fixed":"7405d0ba294306721843bc551611775e6edef516"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-90174.json"}},{"package":{"name":"Kernel","ecosystem":"Linux"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.15.0"},{"fixed":"7.2.6"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-90174.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}