{ "schema_version": "1.6.1", "id": "RPI-CVE-2026-89637", "modified": "2026-10-09T11:39:44Z", "upstream": [ "CVE-2026-89637" ], "published": "2026-09-11T19:47:07Z", "summary": "smb: client: fix UAF and buffer leak in cifs_check_trans2() for malformed secondary T2", "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: fix UAF and buffer leak in cifs_check_trans2() for malformed secondary T2\n\nWhen a valid primary TRANSACT2 response has been received (mid->resp_buf\nset, mid->multiRsp true) and a subsequent secondary response causes\ncifs_check_trans2() to return false -- either because the SMB header is\ninvalid (malformed != 0) or because check2ndT2() rejects the PDU --\nhandle_mid() overwrites mid->resp_buf with the new buffer (leaking the\nprimary buffer) and, because mid->multiRsp is set, skips the\nserver->smallbuf/bigbuf NULL-out. When the user thread frees\nmid->resp_buf, server->smallbuf or server->bigbuf is left dangling; the\ndemux thread reuses it for the next packet, resulting in a use-after-free.\n\nCombine both early-exit conditions and, when mid->multiRsp is already\nset, abort the pending transaction inline: set multiEnd, call\ndequeue_mid() with malformed=true, and return true so handle_mid() exits\nwithout touching mid->resp_buf or the server buffer pointers.", "severity": [ { "type": "CVSS_V3", "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H" } ], "affected": [ { "package": { "ecosystem": "Raspberry Pi OS:12", "name": "linux" }, "versions": [ "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4" ], "ecosystem_specific": { "binaries": [ { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-2712", "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-v6", "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-v7", "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-v7l", "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-v8", "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4" } ] }, "database_specific": { "per_version": { "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4": { "linux_commit": "655fc658a15ae7a6f37103754adb39ba52a9a14e", "upstream_version": "6.1.47", "assessment": "commit ancestry (strak rule)", "upstream_fixed": null, "compiled_filter": false } } } }, { "package": { "ecosystem": "Raspberry Pi OS:13", "name": "linux" }, "versions": [ "1:6.18.50-1+rpt1" ], "ecosystem_specific": { "binaries": [ { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.18.50+rpt-rpi-2712", "binary_version": "1:6.18.50-1+rpt1" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.18.50+rpt-rpi-v6", "binary_version": "1:6.18.50-1+rpt1" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.18.50+rpt-rpi-v7", "binary_version": "1:6.18.50-1+rpt1" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.18.50+rpt-rpi-v8", "binary_version": "1:6.18.50-1+rpt1" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.18.50+rpt-rpi-v8-rt", "binary_version": "1:6.18.50-1+rpt1" } ] }, "database_specific": { "per_version": { "1:6.18.50-1+rpt1": { "linux_commit": "cff533aec2fa601846766b32ff57204e0a61bed7", "upstream_version": "6.18.50", "assessment": "commit ancestry (strak rule)", "upstream_fixed": "6.18.51" } } } } ], "references": [ { "type": "ADVISORY", "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89637" }, { "type": "FIX", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9eed72e9534b10a6d9f8f5146feff3db53aebdba" }, { "type": "FIX", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e6533a683f6a851158d9f33fb4ea8f4f25d7f84" }, { "type": "FIX", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/730d0bb19507b9e19c2fe5343109ac618e2fbce5" } ], "database_specific": { "source": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git", "upstream_modified": "2026-09-13T06:49:25Z", "severity": { "source": "kernel CNA", "cvss_v3_score": 9.8, "cvss_v3_severity": "Critical", "scenario": "AV:N - cifs_check_trans2() runs in cifs_demultiplex_thread on SMB1 TRANS2 responses received over TCP/445; a malicious or compromised SMB1 server (or MITM on an unsigned session) delivers the crafted primary and malformed secondary PDUs entirely over the network.\nAC:L - The attacker fully controls both fragments: a valid primary with TotalDataCount greater than DataCount sets mid->multiRsp, then a secondary with WordCount != 10, inconsistent counts, or a malformed SMB header makes cifs_check_trans2() return false. The resulting UAF is deterministic with no race outside the attacker's control.\nPR:N - The attacker is the remote SMB peer and needs no account or privileges on the victim; cifs_check_trans2() runs in the demux thread on server-supplied frames, and session credentials belong to the client mount, not the attacking server.\nUI:N - Once an SMB1 CIFS mount exists (fstab, autofs, cifsroot, embedded/industrial NAS; CONFIG_CIFS_ALLOW_INSECURE_LEGACY defaults on), reconnect and ordinary lookup/readdir/getattr plus cifs_qfs_tcon QUERY_FS_INFO issue TRANS2 automatically, so the server can trigger the UAF with no further user action.\nS:U - The use-after-free corrupts the client kernel's own CIFS receive-buffer mempool (cifs_req_poolp/cifs_sm_req_poolp) within the same host security authority; this is not a VM escape, IOMMU bypass, or sandbox boundary crossing.\nC:H - handle_mid() overwrites mid->resp_buf without detaching server->bigbuf/smallbuf, so after the user thread frees the buffer the demux thread reuses the dangling mempool object for the next packet; that use-after-free enables heap reuse and arbitrary kernel memory disclosure.\nI:H - The same dangling server receive buffer is written by cifsd and later freed by the user thread, yielding a kernel heap use-after-free. Attacker-controlled subsequent SMB payloads and heap grooming can turn this into an arbitrary write or control-flow hijack.\nA:H - Reusing a freed CIFS small/large response buffer can fault on poisoned or unmapped slab objects and oops or panic the demux thread, and a malicious server can retrigger the primary-then-malformed-secondary sequence on every multi-part TRANS2." } } }