Not yet scoredPublished Sep 25, 2026

CVE-2026-98114ksmbd: propagate DACL parsing errors

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 11:40 AM ET)

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: propagate DACL parsing errors parse_dacl() silently accepts truncated ACEs and allocation failures, allowing set_info_sec() to continue with an incomplete ACL conversion. Return parsing and allocation errors to parse_sec_desc() so malformed security descriptors are rejected before inode attributes or ACL xattrs are updated.

CVSS: Not yet scored
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Linux
NVD analysis: Undergoing Analysis
Record last updated: Oct 21, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Linux Linux linux:linux (from the name)	from e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 before 99ae165acf633b13df34105815110fec332a2cdc; from e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 before 461f10a5297e85b7c1cd21838922f2e57b934d2d; from e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 before 37952f03d5171eb3a33b2abc2cf6e456d69ff4a1; from e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 before a04dac1f2cffe9533f4260f0659297d805e69194; from e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 before c61dc7b1b4a3234b4aa3965502908a292238805c	CNA record

References

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99ae165acf633b13df34105815110fec332a2cdc
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/461f10a5297e85b7c1cd21838922f2e57b934d2d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37952f03d5171eb3a33b2abc2cf6e456d69ff4a1
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a04dac1f2cffe9533f4260f0659297d805e69194
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c61dc7b1b4a3234b4aa3965502908a292238805c

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