From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
To: "Jérémy Jean" <Jeremy.Jean@oss.cyber.gouv.fr>,
"Namjae Jeon" <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
Cc: "Ronnie Sahlberg" <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>,
"Shyam Prasad N" <sprasad@microsoft.com>,
"Tom Talpey" <tom@talpey.com>,
"Bharath SM" <bharathsm@microsoft.com>,
linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Jérémy Jean" <Jeremy.Jean@oss.cyber.gouv.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] smb: client: validate absolute native symlink targets before NT fixups
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:27:43 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35fa98de2def19bee8e0bdc1e82d83e5@manguebit.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260910183742.4029092-2-Jeremy.Jean@oss.cyber.gouv.fr>
Jérémy Jean <Jeremy.Jean@oss.cyber.gouv.fr> writes:
> With symlinkroot unset, an absolute target is copied without conversion
> to an NT drive path. Later code still assumes an NT prefix is present
> when modifying the target and calculating the print name length.
>
> For "/ab", this causes two failures: sym[5] and path[5] are written
> past their allocations, and plen -= 2 * poff subtracts an assumed
> 8-byte prefix from a 6-byte UTF-16 target, wrapping u16 plen to 65534.
> That underflow causes another overflow: memcpy() copies 65534 bytes
> into a 24-byte buffer. A user with write access to a mounted share
> can trigger these bugs with default settings.
>
> Validate the NT drive prefix, including an ASCII drive letter, before
> accessing fixed offsets or subtracting the prefix length.
> ...
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-11 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-10 18:37 Jérémy Jean
2026-09-11 2:02 ` Namjae Jeon
2026-09-11 19:27 ` Paulo Alcantara [this message]
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