CriticalFix available
ksmbd: validate minimum PDU size for transform requests
Type: advisorySources: OSV
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: validate minimum PDU size for transform requests The receive path applies the minimum SMB2 PDU size check only when ProtocolId is SMB2_PROTO_NUMBER. A packet carrying SMB2_TRANSFORM_PROTO_NUM bypasses the check even when the negotiated dialect does not provide transform handling. On an SMB 2.1 connection, a short transform packet therefore reaches init_smb2_rsp_hdr(), which interprets the request as a full SMB2 header and reads beyond the request allocation. The copied fields can then be returned to the unauthenticated client. Compression transforms are converted to ordinary SMB2 messages before protocol validation. After that conversion, validate ordinary SMB2 requests against SMB2_MIN_SUPPORTED_PDU_SIZE and require encryption transform requests to contain both a transform header and an SMB2 header. This rejects truncated requests before work allocation.
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 5.15.217, 6.1.184, 6.12.105, 6.18.46, 6.6.153, 7.1.6
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-68431
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 28 Oct 2026, 08:57 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
ksmbd: validate minimum PDU size for transform requests
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 12 Aug 2026, 00:07 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: validate minimum PDU size for transform requests The receive path applies the minimum SMB2 PDU size check only when ProtocolId is SMB2_PROTO_NUMBER. A packet carrying SMB2_TRANSFORM_PROTO_NUM bypasses the check even when the negotiated dialect does not provide transform handling. On an SMB 2.1 connection, a short transform packet therefore reaches init_smb2_rsp_hdr(), which interprets the request as a full SMB2 header and reads beyond the request allocation. The copied fields can then be returned to the unauthenticated client. Compression transforms are converted to ordinary SMB2 messages before protocol validation. After that conversion, validate ordinary SMB2 requests against SMB2_MIN_SUPPORTED_PDU_SIZE and require encryption transform requests to contain both a transform header and an SMB2 header. This rejects truncated requests before work allocation.
osv:CVE-2026-68431
Kernel
Fixed versions: 5.15.217, 6.1.184, 6.6.153, 6.12.105, 6.18.46, 7.1.6
Complete source record
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