CVE-2026-72044: ksmbd: fix stack buffer overflow in multichannel session-key copy

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

Description
===========

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

ksmbd: fix stack buffer overflow in multichannel session-key copy

Commit 4b706360ffb7 ("ksmbd: fix multichannel binding and enforce channel
limit") moved the binding-path session key out of the session-wide
sess->sess_key (CIFS_KEY_SIZE = 40) into a new per-channel buffer, and
sized both that buffer and the on-stack copy used during binding with
SMB2_NTLMV2_SESSKEY_SIZE (16):

	struct channel {
		char	sess_key[SMB2_NTLMV2_SESSKEY_SIZE];	/* 16 */
		...
	};

	ntlm_authenticate() / krb5_authenticate():
		char channel_key[SMB2_NTLMV2_SESSKEY_SIZE] = {};	/* 16 */
		char *auth_key = conn->binding ? channel_key : sess->sess_key;

The two writers that fill this destination still bound the copy length
against CIFS_KEY_SIZE (40), not against the 16-byte buffer:

	ksmbd_decode_ntlmssp_auth_blob() (NTLM key exchange):
		if (sess_key_len > CIFS_KEY_SIZE)	/* 40 */
			return -EINVAL;
		arc4_crypt(ctx_arc4, sess_key,
			   (char *)authblob + sess_key_off, sess_key_len);

	ksmbd_krb5_authenticate():
		if (resp->session_key_len > sizeof(sess->sess_key))	/* 40 */
			...
		memcpy(sess_key, resp->payload, resp->session_key_len);

On a binding SESSION_SETUP, auth_key points at the 16-byte channel_key,
so a client that supplies an NTLM EncryptedRandomSessionKey of up to 40
bytes (with NTLMSSP_NEGOTIATE_KEY_EXCH), or a Kerberos ticket whose
session key is longer than 16 bytes (a normal AES256 key is 32), writes
past the 16-byte stack buffer -- up to a 24-byte kernel stack overflow.
KASAN reports it as a stack-out-of-bounds write in arc4_crypt() called
from ksmbd_decode_ntlmssp_auth_blob().

The destinations must be able to hold the full session key the length
checks already permit. Size the per-channel key buffer and the two
on-stack channel_key buffers with CIFS_KEY_SIZE, matching sess->sess_key.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-72044 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 7.2-rc3 with commit 4b706360ffb7e459cb3d3edae30b06a584f6eddd and fixed in 7.2-rc4 with commit 610346149d047a52a92c9a0eb329dd565b8f92c5

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-72044
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	fs/smb/server/mgmt/user_session.h
	fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a7f7b55d7d0fbc4662c981ee6c56e081fa66d58
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/610346149d047a52a92c9a0eb329dd565b8f92c5