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GHSA-J2X9-QG6Q-8WG7

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

Details

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

ksmbd: validate command request size

In commit 2b9b8f3b68ed ("ksmbd: validate command payload size"), except for SMB2_OPLOCK_BREAK_HE command, the request size of other commands is not checked, it's not expected. Fix it by add check for request size of other commands.

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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  "published": "2025-08-16T15:30:30Z",
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CVE-2023-4515 (GCVE-0-2023-4515)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-16 13:25 – Updated: 2026-08-05 09:09

Title

ksmbd: validate command request size

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: validate command request size In commit 2b9b8f3b68ed ("ksmbd: validate command payload size"), except for SMB2_OPLOCK_BREAK_HE command, the request size of other commands is not checked, it's not expected. Fix it by add check for request size of other commands.

Severity

9.1 (Critical)


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

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6856 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/595679098bdcdbfbb…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6bef3bc30fd4a175…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff7236b66d69582f9…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5aa4fda5aa9c2a5a7…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 35f450f54dca1519bb24faacd0428db09f89a11f , < 595679098bdcdbfbba91ebe07a2f7f208df93870 (git) Affected: 9650cf70ec9d94ff34daa088b643229231723c26 , < c6bef3bc30fd4a175aef846b7d928a6c40d091cd (git) Affected: 2b9b8f3b68edb3d67d79962f02e26dbb5ae3808d , < ff7236b66d69582f90cf5616e63cfc3dc18142bb (git) Affected: 2b9b8f3b68edb3d67d79962f02e26dbb5ae3808d , < 5aa4fda5aa9c2a5a7bac67b4a12b089ab81fee3c (git) Affected: 768caf4019f0391c0b6452afe34cea1704133f7b (git) Affected: 5.15.121 , < 5.15.127 (semver) Affected: 6.1.36 , < 6.1.46 (semver) Affected: 6.3.10 , < 6.4 (semver)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.4 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.4 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.127 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.46 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.4.11 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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