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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.2 High

CVE-2026-31476

ksmbd: do not expire session on binding failure

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: do not expire session on binding failure When a multichannel session binding request fails (e.g. wrong password), the error path unconditionally sets sess->state = SMB2_SESSION_EXPIRED. However, during binding, sess points to the target session looked up via ksmbd_session_lookup_slowpath() -- which belongs to another connection's user. This allows a remote attacker to invalidate any active session by simply sending a binding request with a wrong password (DoS). Fix this by skipping session expiration when the failed request was a binding attempt, since the session does not belong to the current connection. The reference taken by ksmbd_session_lookup_slowpath() is still correctly released via ksmbd_user_session_put().

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • f5a544e3bab78142207e0242d22442db85ba1eff to < 4642ea35c03cf3d3558c009df4757cdb7af3f82daffected
  • f5a544e3bab78142207e0242d22442db85ba1eff to < f5300690c23c5ac860499bb37dbc09cf43fd62e6affected
  • f5a544e3bab78142207e0242d22442db85ba1eff to < 6fafc4c4238e538969f1375f9ecdc6587c53f1ccaffected
  • f5a544e3bab78142207e0242d22442db85ba1eff to < 1d1888b4a7aec518b707f6eca0bf08992c0e8da3affected
  • f5a544e3bab78142207e0242d22442db85ba1eff to < a897064a457056acb976e20e3007cdf553de340faffected
  • f5a544e3bab78142207e0242d22442db85ba1eff to < e0e5edc81b241c70355217de7e120c97c3429debaffected
  • f5a544e3bab78142207e0242d22442db85ba1eff to < 9bbb19d21ded7d78645506f20d8c44895e3d0fb9affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 5.15affected
  • 0 to < 5.15unaffected
  • 5.15.209 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.168 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.131 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.80 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.21 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 6.19.11 to ≤ 6.19.*unaffected
  • 7.0 to ≤ *unaffected

References