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High severity7.1NVD Advisory· Published Apr 24, 2026· Updated Apr 29, 2026

CVE-2026-31614

CVE-2026-31614

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: client: fix off-by-8 bounds check in check_wsl_eas()

The bounds check uses (u8 *)ea + nlen + 1 + vlen as the end of the EA name and value, but ea_data sits at offset sizeof(struct smb2_file_full_ea_info) = 8 from ea, not at offset 0. The strncmp() later reads ea->ea_data[0..nlen-1] and the value bytes follow at ea_data[nlen+1..nlen+vlen], so the actual end is ea->ea_data + nlen + 1 + vlen. Isn't pointer math fun?

The earlier check (u8 *)ea > end - sizeof(*ea) only guarantees the 8-byte header is in bounds, but since the last EA is placed within 8 bytes of the end of the response, the name and value bytes are read past the end of iov.

Fix this mess all up by using ea->ea_data as the base for the bounds check.

An "untrusted" server can use this to leak up to 8 bytes of kernel heap into the EA name comparison and influence which WSL xattr the data is interpreted as.

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