Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-64398

Linux Linux

ksmbd: add a permission check for FSCTL_SET_ZERO_DATA

CVSS 3.1
8.1High

Official 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.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
8.1High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (Linux) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
Linux Linux 5.15 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 ≤ v < 3072d82461f498c85daea8766e9d8bfbada31605 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 ≤ v < ca53bb17f4e8232cfaece3953d3cef62c559b039 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 ≤ v < 25377f369688dd0bd814dc8965ed26d44238ecaa CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 ≤ v < deffa929086d7902e30918adf3dd27ccfe9c08b1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 ≤ v < 3320ba068198adc144c89d6661b805acce01735b CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 ≤ v < 57f2042fd87d7ce8fc3ac8b6c176e554df68b1a7 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2026-07-25
Last updated
2026-08-17
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
Linux

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.46%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
40.4%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

Weaknesses (CWE)

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