CVE-2026-98114

medium

Description

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c61dc7b1b4a3234b4aa3965502908a292238805c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a04dac1f2cffe9533f4260f0659297d805e69194

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/461f10a5297e85b7c1cd21838922f2e57b934d2d

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37952f03d5171eb3a33b2abc2cf6e456d69ff4a1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00168