UNKNOWN NVD
CVE-2026-93787
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()
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.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03003506c86f90312b0966283662c42fcab66e4b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e3b965267b7313903baba2739992b1e2e92d540
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8cf09a53a0dc1da298e9dd0ba5f21710cf119d6
This unknown severity vulnerability was published on 2026-09-24 via NVD.
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