Vulnerability Bulletins

CVE-2026-31717

   
Affected software LINUX KERNEL
 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ksmbd: validate owner of durable handle on reconnect

Currently, ksmbd does not verify if the user attempting to reconnect
to a durable handle is the same user who originally opened the file.
This allows any authenticated user to hijack an orphaned durable handle
by predicting or brute-forcing the persistent ID.

According to MS-SMB2, the server MUST verify that the SecurityContext
of the reconnect request matches the SecurityContext associated with
the existing open.
Add a durable_owner structure to ksmbd_file to store the original opener's
UID, GID, and account name. and catpure the owner information when a file
handle becomes orphaned. and implementing ksmbd_vfs_compare_durable_owner()
to validate the identity of the requester during SMB2_CREATE (DHnC).

Link:

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-31717