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GHSA-HWFV-6R5J-7XM3

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-08-16 15:30 – Updated: 2025-11-18 18:32

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

ksmbd: validate session id and tree id in the compound request

This patch validate session id and tree id in compound request. If first operation in the compound is SMB2 ECHO request, ksmbd bypass session and tree validation. So work->sess and work->tcon could be NULL. If secound request in the compound access work->sess or tcon, It cause NULL pointer dereferecing error.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2023-3866 (GCVE-0-2023-3866)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-16 13:27 – Updated: 2026-08-05 09:09

Title

ksmbd: validate session id and tree id in the compound request

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: validate session id and tree id in the compound request This patch validate session id and tree id in compound request. If first operation in the compound is SMB2 ECHO request, ksmbd bypass session and tree validation. So work->sess and work->tcon could be NULL. If secound request in the compound access work->sess or tcon, It cause NULL pointer dereferecing error.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7061 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb947403518ea3d93…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/854156d12caa9d36d…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1066c1b3663401cd…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5005bcb4219156f1b…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf , < eb947403518ea3d93f6d89264bb1f5416bb0c7d0 (git) Affected: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf , < 854156d12caa9d36de1cf5f084591c7686cc8a9d (git) Affected: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf , < d1066c1b3663401cd23c0d6e60cdae750ce00c0f (git) Affected: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf , < 5005bcb4219156f1bf7587b185080ec1da08518e (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.15 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.121 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.36 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.3.10 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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