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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.1 High

CVE-2026-64398

ksmbd: add a permission check for FSCTL_SET_ZERO_DATA

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: add a permission check for FSCTL_SET_ZERO_DATA FSCTL_SET_ZERO_DATA in smb2_ioctl() destroys file data via ksmbd_vfs_zero_data() -> vfs_fallocate(PUNCH_HOLE/ZERO_RANGE) after checking only the share-level KSMBD_TREE_CONN_FLAG_WRITABLE, with no per-handle access check. A handle opened with only FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES still yields an FMODE_WRITE filp (FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES is part of FILE_WRITE_DESIRE_ACCESS_LE, so smb2_create_open_flags() opens it O_WRONLY), so the vfs_fallocate FMODE_WRITE check does not stop it; only the missing fp->daccess gate would. Reproduced on mainline 7.1-rc7 with KASAN by an authenticated SMB client: a FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES-only handle zeroed 4096 bytes of file data it had no FILE_WRITE_DATA right to (6/6; a FILE_READ_DATA-only handle was correctly denied). This is the unfixed sibling of commit cc57232cae23 ("ksmbd: fix FSCTL permission bypass by adding a permission check for FSCTL_SET_SPARSE"). Because SET_ZERO_DATA writes data (not an attribute), require FILE_WRITE_DATA.

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

  • e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to < 25377f369688dd0bd814dc8965ed26d44238ecaaaffected
  • e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to < 3072d82461f498c85daea8766e9d8bfbada31605affected
  • e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to < ca53bb17f4e8232cfaece3953d3cef62c559b039affected
  • e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to < 57f2042fd87d7ce8fc3ac8b6c176e554df68b1a7affected
  • e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to < deffa929086d7902e30918adf3dd27ccfe9c08b1affected
  • e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 to < 3320ba068198adc144c89d6661b805acce01735baffected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 5.15affected
  • 0 to < 5.15unaffected
  • 6.1.178 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.145 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.96 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.39 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.1.4 to ≤ 7.1.*unaffected
  • 7.2 to ≤ *unaffected

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