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() copies the entry name out of an SMB1 TRANS2_FIND_FIRST / FIND_NEXT response using a length (de.namelen) supplied by the server. The kmallocd 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 Artiphishells 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.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03003506c86f90312b0966283662c42fcab66e4b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cb3d79beee0fecc739ce07af915d503f29ae557
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e3b965267b7313903baba2739992b1e2e92d540
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf87ef1e62ed31a439064cef69d6eec38c68bd92
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8cf09a53a0dc1da298e9dd0ba5f21710cf119d6