[PATCH] ksmbd: fix heap out-of-bounds write in SMB2_CREATE context stacking

[PATCH] ksmbd: fix heap out-of-bounds write in SMB2_CREATE context stacking

[Henry Martin]

smb2_open() appends up to six create contexts (lease, mxac, disk_id,
durable, posix, aapl) back-to-back without checking the total length
against work->response_sz.  A non-compound SMB2_CREATE only gets the
448-byte small response buffer, which also carries the 4-byte rfc1002
length word, leaving 292 bytes for contexts.  The AAPL response alone
occupies 128 fixed bytes, so a client stacking contexts (up to 416)
overruns the kmalloc-512 object into the adjacent allocation with a
deterministic zero-fill.

Compute the worst-case context total from the per-dialect
conn->vals->create_*_size table and grow the response buffer to fit
before writing any context, so legitimate requests keep working
unchanged.

This vulnerability was discovered by Tencent CodeBuddy Security.

Fixes: 8f1b796ff1135 ("ksmbd: add AAPL kAAPL_SERVER_QUERY create context support")
Signed-off-by: Henry Martin <bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com>
---
 fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c b/fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c
index 6b8809f67b926..e18e6b630f757 100644
--- a/fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c
+++ b/fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c
@@ -5162,6 +5162,52 @@ int smb2_open(struct ksmbd_work *work)
 	rsp->CreateContextsLength = 0;
 	iov_len = offsetof(struct smb2_create_rsp, Buffer);

+	/*
+	 * The create contexts below are appended back-to-back with no
+	 * length check, while a non-compound CREATE only gets the 448-byte
+	 * small response buffer; a client stacking lease+mxac+disk_id+
+	 * durable+posix+AAPL contexts overruns it (the AAPL response alone
+	 * memsets 128 fixed bytes).  Compute the worst-case total and grow
+	 * the buffer before writing any context.  Note that response_buf
+	 * also carries the 4-byte rfc1002 length word before the SMB2
+	 * header.
+	 */
+	{
+		size_t ctx_max = 0;
+		size_t need;
+		void *nbuf;
+
+		if (opinfo && opinfo->is_lease)
+			ctx_max += conn->vals->create_lease_size;
+		if (maximal_access_ctxt)
+			ctx_max += conn->vals->create_mxac_size;
+		if (query_disk_id)
+			ctx_max += conn->vals->create_disk_id_size;
+		if (durable_rsp && dh_info.type == DURABLE_REQ_V2)
+			ctx_max += conn->vals->create_durable_v2_size;
+		else if (durable_rsp && dh_info.type == DURABLE_REQ)
+			ctx_max += conn->vals->create_durable_size;
+		if (posix_ctxt)
+			ctx_max += conn->vals->create_posix_size;
+		if (aapl_ctxt)
+			ctx_max += conn->vals->create_aapl_size;
+
+		need = 4 + offsetof(struct smb2_create_rsp, Buffer) + ctx_max;
+		if (need > work->response_sz) {
+			nbuf = kvzalloc(need, KSMBD_DEFAULT_GFP);
+			if (!nbuf) {
+				rc = -ENOMEM;
+				goto err_out;
+			}
+			memcpy(nbuf, work->response_buf,
+			       4 + offsetof(struct smb2_create_rsp, Buffer));
+			kvfree(work->response_buf);
+			work->response_buf = nbuf;
+			work->response_sz = need;
+			rsp = smb_get_msg(work->response_buf);
+		}
+	}
+
 	/* If lease is request send lease context response */
 	if (opinfo && opinfo->is_lease) {
 		struct create_context *lease_ccontext;
--
2.43.7

Re: [PATCH] ksmbd: fix heap out-of-bounds write in SMB2_CREATE context stacking

[Namjae Jeon]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM Henry Martin <bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> smb2_open() appends up to six create contexts (lease, mxac, disk_id,
> durable, posix, aapl) back-to-back without checking the total length
> against work->response_sz.  A non-compound SMB2_CREATE only gets the
> 448-byte small response buffer, which also carries the 4-byte rfc1002
> length word, leaving 292 bytes for contexts.  The AAPL response alone
> occupies 128 fixed bytes, so a client stacking contexts (up to 416)
> overruns the kmalloc-512 object into the adjacent allocation with a
> deterministic zero-fill.
>
> Compute the worst-case context total from the per-dialect
> conn->vals->create_*_size table and grow the response buffer to fit
> before writing any context, so legitimate requests keep working
> unchanged.
>
> This vulnerability was discovered by Tencent CodeBuddy Security.
>
> Fixes: 8f1b796ff1135 ("ksmbd: add AAPL kAAPL_SERVER_QUERY create context support")
> Signed-off-by: Henry Martin <bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com>
Please check the following patch in #ksmbd-for-next branch.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linkinjeon/smb.git/commit/?id=4ceeaa7b1a1a022ee329c4068339b3f44c1514a2

Thanks.