CVE-2026-97554

smb: client: avoid using uninitialized SIDs in cifs_posix_to_fattr()

CVE-2026-97554 is fixed in 14 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-97554, released October 2, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
7.1
Moderate
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0021
11th percentile

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: avoid using uninitialized SIDs in cifs_posix_to_fattr() cifs_posix_to_fattr() ignores the return value of posix_info_parse(). When a malformed POSIX directory entry is encountered (e.g. invalid SID lengths from an untrusted server), posix_info_parse() returns -1 without populating the 'parsed' struct. The uninitialized stack memory in parsed.owner and parsed.group is then passed to sid_to_id(), which processes the garbage bytes and passes them to request_key() to construct a SID string, potentially leaking kernel stack contents to the userspace idmap daemon. Fix this by checking the return value and skipping the SID-to-id mapping when parsing fails. The remaining fattr fields (timestamps, mode, etc.) are populated directly from the 'info' pointer so they are unaffected.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
dtb-aarch64 · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.40.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2026:22167-1 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-64kb · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.40.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2026:22167-1 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-64kb · sles 16.0 6.12.0-160000.40.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24446-1 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-azure · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.40.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2026:22167-1 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-azure · sles 16.0 6.12.0-160000.40.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24446-1 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-default · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.40.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2026:22167-1 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-default · sles 16.0 6.12.0-160000.40.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24446-1 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-default-base · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.40.1.160000.2.29 OPENSUSE-SU-2026:22167-1 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-default-base · sles 16.0 6.12.0-160000.40.1.160000.2.29 SUSE-SU-2026:24446-1 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-docs · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.40.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2026:22167-1 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-docs · sles 16.0 6.12.0-160000.40.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24446-1 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-kvmsmall · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.40.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2026:22167-1 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-kvmsmall · sles 16.0 6.12.0-160000.40.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24446-1 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-obs-build · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.40.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2026:22167-1 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-obs-qa · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.40.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2026:22167-1 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-obs-qa · sles 16.0 6.12.0-160000.40.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24446-1 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-rt · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.40.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2026:22167-1 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-source · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.40.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2026:22167-1 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-source · sles 16.0 6.12.0-160000.40.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24446-1 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-syms · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.40.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2026:22167-1 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-syms · sles 16.0 6.12.0-160000.40.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24446-1 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-zfcpdump · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.40.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2026:22167-1 Nov 7, 2026
kernel-zfcpdump · sles 16.0 6.12.0-160000.40.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24446-1 Nov 7, 2026
linux · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 6.12.115-2 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-97554 Oct 2, 2026
linux · Debian 14 7.2.7-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-97554 Oct 2, 2026

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