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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: validate EaNameLength in smb2_get_ea() smb2_get_ea() reads ea_req->EaNameLength from the client request and passes it directly to strncmp() as the comparison length without verifying that the length of the name really is the size of the input buffer received. Fix this up by properly checking the size of the name based on the value received and the overall size of the request, to prevent a later strncmp() call to use the length as a "trusted" size of the buffer. Without this check, uninitialized heap values might be slowly leaked to the client.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-03-09 | Published 2026-04-24 | Updated 2026-04-27 | Assigner Linux




HIGH: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Product status

Default status
unaffected

e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 (git) before 4b73376feecb3b61172fe5b4ff42bbbb8531669d
affected

e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 (git) before 551dfb15b182abad4600eaf7b37e6eb7000d5b1b
affected

e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 (git) before 3363a770b193f555f29d76ddf4ced3305c0ccf6d
affected

e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 (git) before 243b206bcb5a7137e8bddd57b2eec81e1ebd3859
affected

e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 (git) before dfc6878d14acafffbe670bf2576620757a10a3d8
affected

e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 (git) before 66751841212c2cc196577453c37f7774ff363f02
affected

Default status
affected

5.15
affected

Any version before 5.15
unaffected

6.6.136 (semver)
unaffected

6.12.83 (semver)
unaffected

6.18.24 (semver)
unaffected

6.19.14 (semver)
unaffected

7.0.1 (semver)
unaffected

7.1-rc1 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/4b73376feecb3b61172fe5b4ff42bbbb8531669d

git.kernel.org/...c/551dfb15b182abad4600eaf7b37e6eb7000d5b1b

git.kernel.org/...c/3363a770b193f555f29d76ddf4ced3305c0ccf6d

git.kernel.org/...c/243b206bcb5a7137e8bddd57b2eec81e1ebd3859

git.kernel.org/...c/dfc6878d14acafffbe670bf2576620757a10a3d8

git.kernel.org/...c/66751841212c2cc196577453c37f7774ff363f02

cve.org (CVE-2026-31612)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-31612)

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