CVE-2025-68295

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix memory leak in cifs_construct_tcon() When having a multiuser mount with domain= specified and using cifscreds, cifs_set_cifscreds() will end up setting @ctx->domainname, so it needs to be freed before leaving cifs_construct_tcon(). This fixes the following memory leak reported by kmemleak: mount.cifs //srv/share /mnt -o domain=ZELDA,multiuser,... su - testuser cifscreds add -d ZELDA -u testuser ... ls /mnt/1 ... umount /mnt echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak unreferenced object 0xffff8881203c3f08 (size 8): comm "ls", pid 5060, jiffies 4307222943 hex dump (first 8 bytes): 5a 45 4c 44 41 00 cc cc ZELDA... backtrace (crc d109a8cf): __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x572/0x710 kstrdup+0x3a/0x70 cifs_sb_tlink+0x1209/0x1770 [cifs] cifs_get_fattr+0xe1/0xf50 [cifs] cifs_get_inode_info+0xb5/0x240 [cifs] cifs_revalidate_dentry_attr+0x2d1/0x470 [cifs] cifs_getattr+0x28e/0x450 [cifs] vfs_getattr_nosec+0x126/0x180 vfs_statx+0xf6/0x220 do_statx+0xab/0x110 __x64_sys_statx+0xd5/0x130 do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x380 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

SeverityUnknown
CVSS—
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux
PublishedDec 16, 2025
First seenDec 16, 2025

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  • Linux Linuxff8f9bd1c46ee02d5558293915d42e82646d5ee9, d146e96fef876492979658dce644305de35878d4, 3dd546e867e94c2f954bca45a961b6104ba708b6, f62ffdfb431bdfa4b6d24233b7fd830eca0b801e, f15288c137d960836277d0e3ecc62de68e52f00f, a67e91d5f446e455dd9201cdd6e865f7078d251d, 3184b6a5a24ec9ee74087b2a550476f386df7dc2, 4.5, 4.10, 4.15, 4.20, 5.3 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
Linux Linuxf2aee329a68f5a907bcff11a109dfe17c0b41aeb ≤ v < ff8f9bd1c46ee02d5558293915d42e82646d5ee9, f2aee329a68f5a907bcff11a109dfe17c0b41aeb ≤ v < d146e96fef876492979658dce644305de35878d4, f2aee329a68f5a907bcff11a109dfe17c0b41aeb ≤ v < 3dd546e867e94c2f954bca45a961b6104ba708b6, f2aee329a68f5a907bcff11a109dfe17c0b41aeb ≤ v < f62ffdfb431bdfa4b6d24233b7fd830eca0b801e, f2aee329a68f5a907bcff11a109dfe17c0b41aeb ≤ v < f15288c137d960836277d0e3ecc62de68e52f00f, f2aee329a68f5a907bcff11a109dfe17c0b41aeb ≤ v < a67e91d5f446e455dd9201cdd6e865f7078d251d, f2aee329a68f5a907bcff11a109dfe17c0b41aeb ≤ v < 3184b6a5a24ec9ee74087b2a550476f386df7dc2, 1456d3cea31114137fabf1110d20a2e2c6d6060f, 16764d7486d02b1699ae16e91d7a577602398b17, 904847402bd74a28164bd4d8da082d1eace7c190, 325fa2a6729b74b2806b31725940cb54658515e5, 8db988a982908b7bff76e095000adabf9c29698b, 4.4.194 ≤ v < 4.5, 4.9.194 ≤ v < 4.10, 4.14.146 ≤ v < 4.15, 4.19.75 ≤ v < 4.20, 5.2.17 ≤ v < 5.3, 5.3ff8f9bd1c46ee02d5558293915d42e82646d5ee9, d146e96fef876492979658dce644305de35878d4, 3dd546e867e94c2f954bca45a961b6104ba708b6, f62ffdfb431bdfa4b6d24233b7fd830eca0b801e, f15288c137d960836277d0e3ecc62de68e52f00f, a67e91d5f446e455dd9201cdd6e865f7078d251d, 3184b6a5a24ec9ee74087b2a550476f386df7dc2, 4.5, 4.10, 4.15, 4.20, 5.3

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