CVE-2026-52944

ksmbd: fix FSCTL permission bypass by adding a permission check for FSCTL_SET_SPARSE

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jun 24, 2026
Updated
Sep 14, 2026
Reserved
Jun 9, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ksmbd: fix FSCTL permission bypass by adding a permission check for FSCTL_SET_SPARSE

FSCTL_SET_SPARSE in fsctl_set_sparse() modifies the file's sparse attribute and saves it through xattr without any permission checks.

This exposes two issues:

1) A client on a read-only share can change the sparse attribute on files it opened, even though the share is read-only. Other FSCTL write operations already check test_tree_conn_flag(work->tcon, KSMBD_TREE_CONN_FLAG_WRITABLE), but FSCTL_SET_SPARSE does not.

2) Even on writable shares, clients without FILE_WRITE_DATA or FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES access should not modify the sparse attribute. Similar handle-level checks exist in other functions but are missing here.

Add both share-level writable check and per-handle access check. Use goto out on error to avoid leaking file references.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to before ef664475c1bf1a27d45dae6848ca9c9c4d86853fAffected
  • e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to before 3a9a0a1c38ef90788f5d7c4b29903c8b220f744aAffected
  • e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to before 3127a884525dc8ca4def73254bfcd3ccef0bf812Affected
  • e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to before c5ab11263e3c89aa7989afc5374ef7743e092fd0Affected
  • e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to before de9eb0b44fa9123170e6245b49638e0e453c10f8Affected
  • e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to before aef151bcfa494bfe983669de2726734b534adb73Affected
  • e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to before cc57232cae23c0df91b4a59d0f519141ce9b5b02Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.15Affected
  • before 5.15Not affected
  • 5.15.221 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.188 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.143 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.110 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.35 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.12 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

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