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🛡️ CVE-2024-50151 — kernel

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

smb: client: fix OOBs when building SMB2_IOCTL request

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: client: fix OOBs when building SMB2_IOCTL request

When using encryption, either enforced by the server or when using

'seal' mount option, the client will squash all compound request buffers

down for encryption into a single iov in smb2_set_next_command().

SMB2_ioctl_init() allocates a small buffer (448 bytes) to hold the

SMB2_IOCTL request in the first iov, and if the user passes an input

buffer that is greater than 328 bytes, smb2_set_next_command() will

end up writing off the end of @rqst->iov[0].iov_base as shown below:

mount.cifs //srv/share /mnt -o ...,seal

ln -s $(perl -e "print('a')for 1..1024") /mnt/link

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in

smb2_set_next_command.cold+0x1d6/0x24c [cifs]

Write of size 4116 at addr ffff8881148fcab8 by task ln/859

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 859 Comm: ln Not tainted 6.12.0-rc3 #1

Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS

1.16.3-2.fc40 04/01/2014

Call Trace:

<TASK>

dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x80

? smb2_set_next_command.cold+0x1d6/0x24c [cifs]

print_report+0x156/0x4d9

? smb2_set_next_command.cold+0x1d6/0x24c [cifs]

? __virt_addr_valid+0x145/0x310

? __phys_addr+0x46/0x90

? smb2_set_next_command.cold+0x1d6/0x24c [cifs]

kasan_report+0xda/0x110

? smb2_set_next_command.cold+0x1d6/0x24c [cifs]

kasan_check_range+0x10f/0x1f0

__asan_memcpy+0x3c/0x60

smb2_set_next_command.cold+0x1d6/0x24c [cifs]

smb2_compound_op+0x238c/0x3840 [cifs]

? kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30

? kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x70

? vfs_symlink+0x1a1/0x2c0

? do_symlinkat+0x108/0x1c0

? __pfx_smb2_compound_op+0x10/0x10 [cifs]

? kmem_cache_free+0x118/0x3e0

? cifs_get_writable_path+0xeb/0x1a0 [cifs]

smb2_get_reparse_inode+0x423/0x540 [cifs]

? __pfx_smb2_get_reparse_inode+0x10/0x10 [cifs]

? rcu_is_watching+0x20/0x50

? __kmalloc_noprof+0x37c/0x480

? smb2_create_reparse_symlink+0x257/0x490 [cifs]

? smb2_create_reparse_symlink+0x38f/0x490 [cifs]

smb2_create_reparse_symlink+0x38f/0x490 [cifs]

? __pfx_smb2_create_reparse_symlink+0x10/0x10 [cifs]

? find_held_lock+0x8a/0xa0

? hlock_class+0x32/0xb0

? __build_path_from_dentry_optional_prefix+0x19d/0x2e0 [cifs]

cifs_symlink+0x24f/0x960 [cifs]

? __pfx_make_vfsuid+0x10/0x10

? __pfx_cifs_symlink+0x10/0x10 [cifs]

? make_vfsgid+0x6b/0xc0

? generic_permission+0x96/0x2d0

vfs_symlink+0x1a1/0x2c0

do_symlinkat+0x108/0x1c0

? __pfx_do_symlinkat+0x10/0x10

? strncpy_from_user+0xaa/0x160

__x64_sys_symlinkat+0xb9/0xf0

do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x1d0

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

RIP: 0033:0x7f08d75c13bb

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Affected software

CVE-2024-50151 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.7.0 up to 6.11.6)
  • linux-kernel

Timeline and source

Published on 7 November 2024 and last revised on 12 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

cert-portal.siemens.com (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
lists.debian.org (Web)
lists.debian.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

Other advisories for this package

kernel has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

CVE-2024-50151 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity High
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-11-07
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-12

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.7.0 6.11.6
linux-kernel — —

References

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