[PATCH 6.6 081/166] smb: client: fix off-by-8 bounds check in check_wsl_eas()
Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:29:55 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.kernel.stable,gmane.linux.kernel.cifs,gmane.network.samba.internals |
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6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> commit 3d8b9d06bd3ac4c6846f5498800b0f5f8062e53b upstream. The bounds check uses (u8 *)ea + nlen + 1 + vlen as the end of the EA name and value, but ea_data sits at offset sizeof(struct smb2_file_full_ea_info) = 8 from ea, not at offset 0. The strncmp() later reads ea->ea_data[0..nlen-1] and the value bytes follow at ea_data[nlen+1..nlen+vlen], so the actual end is ea->ea_data + nlen + 1 + vlen. Isn't pointer math fun? The earlier check (u8 *)ea > end - sizeof(*ea) only guarantees the 8-byte header is in bounds, but since the last EA is placed within 8 bytes of the end of the response, the name and value bytes are read past the end of iov. Fix this mess all up by using ea->ea_data as the base for the bounds check. An "untrusted" server can use this to leak up to 8 bytes of kernel heap into the EA name comparison and influence which WSL xattr the data is interpreted as. Cc: Ronnie Sahlberg <[email protected]> Cc: Shyam Prasad N <[email protected]> Cc: Tom Talpey <[email protected]> Cc: Bharath SM <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: stable <[email protected]> Assisted-by: gregkh_clanker_t1000 Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Steve French <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- fs/smb/client/smb2inode.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/smb/client/smb2inode.c +++ b/fs/smb/client/smb2inode.c @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ static int check_wsl_eas(struct kvec *rs nlen = ea->ea_name_length; vlen = le16_to_cpu(ea->ea_value_length); if (nlen != SMB2_WSL_XATTR_NAME_LEN || - (u8 *)ea + nlen + 1 + vlen > end) + (u8 *)ea->ea_data + nlen + 1 + vlen > end) return -EINVAL; switch (vlen) {