CVE-2026-93787

smb: client: bound dirent name against end of SMB response in cifs_filldir

State
Published
Severity
8.1 High
Published
Sep 24, 2026
Updated
Oct 3, 2026
Reserved
Sep 18, 2026

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Description

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

smb: client: bound dirent name against end of SMB response in cifs_filldir

cifs_filldir() copies the entry name out of an SMB1 TRANS2_FIND_FIRST / FIND_NEXT response using a length (de.namelen) supplied by the server. The kmalloc'd SMB response buffer is bounded, but nothing checks that de.name + de.namelen still lies inside that buffer before the eventual filldir64() -> verify_dirent_name() -> memchr() reads namelen bytes.

A hostile SMB1 server that returns an oversized FileNameLength in a directory entry therefore causes memchr() to read past the end of the response slab buffer. Reachable from any user who can list a directory on a CIFS mount served by an attacker-controlled server (getdents64() on the mounted directory):

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in memchr+0x71/0x80 Read of size 1 at addr ffff88800e0640cc by task poc/115 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x64/0x80 print_report+0xce/0x620 kasan_report+0xec/0x120 memchr+0x71/0x80 filldir64+0x4c/0x6a0 cifs_filldir.constprop.0+0x9bb/0x1e00 cifs_readdir+0x2101/0x3380 iterate_dir+0x19c/0x520 __x64_sys_getdents64+0x126/0x210 do_syscall_64+0x107/0x5a0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Pass the end-of-response pointer down to cifs_filldir() and reject entries whose name would extend past that boundary.

This bug was discovered by Artiphishell's vTriage pipeline, which generated a userspace reproducer (an emulated hostile SMB1 server plus a getdents64() client) that reliably triggers the KASAN report on an unpatched kernel. The fix below was drafted with the Claude coding assistant; a userspace reproducer is available on request.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 4cb3d79beee0fecc739ce07af915d503f29ae557Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before cf87ef1e62ed31a439064cef69d6eec38c68bd92Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 6e3b965267b7313903baba2739992b1e2e92d540Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 03003506c86f90312b0966283662c42fcab66e4bAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before f8cf09a53a0dc1da298e9dd0ba5f21710cf119d6Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.12Affected
  • before 2.6.12Not affected
  • 6.1.189 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.158 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.111 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.53 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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