CVE-2026-68099

Summary

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

ksmbd: restore DACL size on check_add_overflow() to avoid malformed ACL

check_add_overflow() unconditionally writes the truncated sum into *d even on overflow, per its contract in include/linux/overflow.h. The four check_add_overflow() guards in set_posix_acl_entries_dacl() and set_ntacl_dacl() break out of the ACE-building loops on overflow, but the truncated *size is then consumed downstream at the end of set_ntacl_dacl():

pndacl->size = cpu_to_le16(le16_to_cpu(pndacl->size) + size);

This produces an on-wire NT ACL whose pndacl->size under-reports the bytes actually written by the preceding fill_ace_for_sid()/memcpy() calls, yielding a malformed ACL that can trigger out-of-bounds reads when re-parsed by clients or ksmbd itself.

Restore *size to its pre-addition value on each overflow branch (via *size -= ace_sz / size -= nt_ace_size) so that after the break, *size once again holds the cumulative size of the successfully-written ACEs. The committed ACL is then truncated-but-self-consistent rather than malformed.

The ksmbd DACL builders are the only check_add_overflow() sites found where an overflow path breaks out of a loop and the destination value is consumed afterward. The other nearby break-style cases either return -EINVAL on overflow (transport_ipc.c) or break without consuming the overflowed destination value afterward (buildid.c).

Affected Software

Weaknesses

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4fcd0c1a243d449307b887fafee23921e9db5ab
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0bf38372821b1526f31538a7d9811844c55c7f38
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/847ecd4eb3c117c3d2f13f1e7ab506543aad8183
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc90144ce8bb7fcf05ad9417c7adb4e9509d9e13
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbf0a8e931204ecdab494a88d43b0a24a04285c5

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