CVE-2026-64398

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 Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25377f369688dd0bd814dc8965ed26d44238ecaa
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3072d82461f498c85daea8766e9d8bfbada31605
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3320ba068198adc144c89d6661b805acce01735b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57f2042fd87d7ce8fc3ac8b6c176e554df68b1a7
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca53bb17f4e8232cfaece3953d3cef62c559b039
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/deffa929086d7902e30918adf3dd27ccfe9c08b1