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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix in-place encryption corruption in SMB2_write() SMB2_write() places write payload in iov[1..n] as part of rq_iov. smb3_init_transform_rq() pointer-shares rq_iov, so crypt_message() encrypts iov[1] in-place, replacing the original plaintext with ciphertext. On a replayable error, the retry sends the same iov[1] which now contains ciphertext instead of the original data, resulting in corruption. The corruption is most likely to be observed when connections are unstable, as reconnects trigger write retries that re-send the already-encrypted data. This affects SFU mknod, MF symlinks, etc. On kernels before 6.10 (prior to the netfs conversion), sync writes also used this path and were similarly affected. The async write path wasn't unaffected as it uses rq_iter which gets deep-copied. Fix by moving the write payload into rq_iter via iov_iter_kvec(), so smb3_init_transform_rq() deep-copies it before encryption.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-05-01 | Published 2026-05-08 | Updated 2026-05-08 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before 438e77435aee2894d5edf90be5c87004a57f6258
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before 52327268224fb9ccc7ecfbbdfdfff54b6e93c518
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before 92e64f1852f455f57d0850989e57c30d7fac7d95
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before aea5e37388a080361110ab5790f57ae0af383650
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before d78840a6a38d312dc1a51a65317bb67e46f0b929
affected

Default status
affected

6.6.130 (semver)
unaffected

6.12.78 (semver)
unaffected

6.18.19 (semver)
unaffected

6.19.9 (semver)
unaffected

7.0 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/438e77435aee2894d5edf90be5c87004a57f6258

git.kernel.org/...c/52327268224fb9ccc7ecfbbdfdfff54b6e93c518

git.kernel.org/...c/92e64f1852f455f57d0850989e57c30d7fac7d95

git.kernel.org/...c/aea5e37388a080361110ab5790f57ae0af383650

git.kernel.org/...c/d78840a6a38d312dc1a51a65317bb67e46f0b929

cve.org (CVE-2026-43362)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-43362)

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