CRITICAL: CVE-2026-46195 (CVSS 9.8) — multiple products

CVE: CVE-2026-46195

CVSS: 9.8 (3.1) — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: CRITICAL

Status: Critical advisory

Affected

_See vendor advisory_

Summary

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

smb: client: validate dacloffset before building DACL pointers

parse_sec_desc(), build_sec_desc(), and the chown path in

id_mode_to_cifs_acl() all add the server-supplied dacloffset to pntsd

before proving a DACL header fits inside the returned security

descriptor.

On 32-bit builds a malicious server can return dacloffset near

U32_MAX, wrap the derived DACL pointer below end_of_acl, and then slip

past the later pointer-based bounds checks. build_sec_desc() and

id_mode_to_cifs_acl() can then dereference DACL fields from the wrapped

pointer in the chmod/chown rewrite paths.

Validate dacloffset numerically before building any DACL pointer and

reuse the same helper at the three DACL entry points.

Verified Sources

• NVD entry
• GitHub Advisory
• MITRE

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b1ddba19e77ee35241cd27f16dc3e8d14e08db7
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bd07e417b6bda67e317920584e48cb6ee442a8a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba7f71b6161c0943dafc367565e5843d16b7d505
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c688f3ed73d31943334ad2139cb02ec49664322a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f98b48151cc502ada59d9778f0112d21f2586ca3

_Validated by the Lyrie Threat Intelligence Pipeline — 3 independent sources confirmed before publication. No speculation._