CVE-2025-21946 (GCVE-0-2025-21946)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-04-01 15:41
Modified
2026-08-05 11:55
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix out-of-bounds in parse_sec_desc() If osidoffset, gsidoffset and dacloffset could be greater than smb_ntsd struct size. If it is smaller, It could cause slab-out-of-bounds. And when validating sid, It need to check it included subauth array size.
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Linux Linux Version: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf
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