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no local user or administrator action is required.\nS:U - The out-of-bounds read and leaked response data stay within the host kernel/ksmbd security authority; this is not a VM escape, IOMMU bypass, or sandbox boundary cross.\nC:H - init_smb2_rsp_hdr() memcpy’s 16 bytes of Signature (and copies SessionId/TreeId) from past the end of the attacker-sized SMB1 request buffer into the response, which ksmbd_conn_write() returns to the unauthenticated peer—a groomable remote kernel-heap disclosure.\nI:N - The defect is a read past the request buffer; response writes stay inside the correctly allocated response buffer, so there is no out-of-bounds write or integrity/control-flow primitive from this bug alone.\nA:H - The overread past a tiny kmalloc request object can fault under KFENCE/DEBUG_PAGEALLOC or panic under KASAN/panic_on_warn (as in related KASAN reports), and the attacker can retrigger it pre-authentication at will." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "fs/smb/server/server.c", "fs/smb/server/smb_common.c", "fs/smb/server/smb_common.h" ], "versions": [ { "version": "0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf", "lessThan": "5c0df9d30c289d6b9d7d44e2a450de2f8e3cf40b", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf", "lessThan": "330d900620dfc9893011d725b3620cd2ee0bc2bc", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf", "lessThan": "aa669ef229ae8dd779da9caa24e254964545895f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf", "lessThan": "536bb492d39bb6c080c92f31e8a55fe9934f452b", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "fs/smb/server/server.c", "fs/smb/server/smb_common.c", "fs/smb/server/smb_common.h" ], "versions": [ { "version": "5.15", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "5.15", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "5.15.145", "lessThanOrEqual": "5.15.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.1.53", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.1.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.4.16", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.4.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.5", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.15", "versionEndExcluding": "5.15.145" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.15", "versionEndExcluding": "6.1.53" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.15", "versionEndExcluding": "6.4.16" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.15", "versionEndExcluding": "6.5" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c0df9d30c289d6b9d7d44e2a450de2f8e3cf40b" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/330d900620dfc9893011d725b3620cd2ee0bc2bc" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa669ef229ae8dd779da9caa24e254964545895f" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/536bb492d39bb6c080c92f31e8a55fe9934f452b" } ], "title": "ksmbd: fix out of bounds in init_smb2_rsp_hdr()", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } }, "adp": [ { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108", "shortName": "CVE", "dateUpdated": "2024-08-02T22:55:41.809Z" }, "title": "CVE Program Container", "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c0df9d30c289d6b9d7d44e2a450de2f8e3cf40b", "tags": [ "x_transferred" ] }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/330d900620dfc9893011d725b3620cd2ee0bc2bc", "tags": [ "x_transferred" ] }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa669ef229ae8dd779da9caa24e254964545895f", "tags": [ "x_transferred" ] }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/536bb492d39bb6c080c92f31e8a55fe9934f452b", "tags": [ "x_transferred" ] } ] }, { "metrics": [ { "other": { "type": "ssvc", "content": { "id": "CVE-2023-52441", "role": "CISA Coordinator", "options": [ { "Exploitation": "none" }, { "Automatable": "no" }, { "Technical Impact": "partial" } ], "version": "2.0.3", "timestamp": "2024-09-10T16:02:49.418159Z" } } } ], "title": "CISA ADP Vulnrichment", "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0", "shortName": "CISA-ADP", "dateUpdated": "2024-09-11T17:33:54.916Z" } } ] } }