CVE-2026-64397

ksmbd: serialize QUERY_DIRECTORY requests per file

State
Published
Severity
9.8 Critical
Published
Jul 25, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Jul 19, 2026

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Description

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

ksmbd: serialize QUERY_DIRECTORY requests per file

smb2_query_dir() stores a pointer to its stack-allocated private data in the ksmbd_file readdir_data. Concurrent QUERY_DIRECTORY requests using the same file handle can overwrite this pointer while an iterate_dir() callback is still using it, resulting in a stack use-after-free.

Add a per-file mutex and hold it while accessing the shared directory enumeration state. The lock covers scan restart, dot entry state, readdir_data setup and iteration, and response construction. This prevents another request from replacing readdir_data.private before the current request has finished using it and also serializes the shared file position.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to before 1426fd79102539bc0ab5c8fced047ad4313b9908Affected
  • e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to before 2a64dbf9c739ddf7a25a066507597bf89f8f73d2Affected
  • e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to before 64dac2d486ec1eb18dc00968b16a230b6b75ec24Affected
  • e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to before a1d5d31cad593ea5e1b637f2f39c9ef6d09d1199Affected
  • e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to before fd22b039a5a05bc1d6818e9dcd1001fb432a829dAffected
  • e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to before be6d26bf27499977c746abc163659915082348d8Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.15Affected
  • before 5.15Not affected
  • 6.1.178 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.145 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.96 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.39 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.4 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

References

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