CVE-2025-68295
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
16/12/2025
Last modified:
16/12/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
smb: client: fix memory leak in cifs_construct_tcon()<br />
<br />
When having a multiuser mount with domain= specified and using<br />
cifscreds, cifs_set_cifscreds() will end up setting @ctx->domainname,<br />
so it needs to be freed before leaving cifs_construct_tcon().<br />
<br />
This fixes the following memory leak reported by kmemleak:<br />
<br />
mount.cifs //srv/share /mnt -o domain=ZELDA,multiuser,...<br />
su - testuser<br />
cifscreds add -d ZELDA -u testuser<br />
...<br />
ls /mnt/1<br />
...<br />
umount /mnt<br />
echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak<br />
cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak<br />
unreferenced object 0xffff8881203c3f08 (size 8):<br />
comm "ls", pid 5060, jiffies 4307222943<br />
hex dump (first 8 bytes):<br />
5a 45 4c 44 41 00 cc cc ZELDA...<br />
backtrace (crc d109a8cf):<br />
__kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x572/0x710<br />
kstrdup+0x3a/0x70<br />
cifs_sb_tlink+0x1209/0x1770 [cifs]<br />
cifs_get_fattr+0xe1/0xf50 [cifs]<br />
cifs_get_inode_info+0xb5/0x240 [cifs]<br />
cifs_revalidate_dentry_attr+0x2d1/0x470 [cifs]<br />
cifs_getattr+0x28e/0x450 [cifs]<br />
vfs_getattr_nosec+0x126/0x180<br />
vfs_statx+0xf6/0x220<br />
do_statx+0xab/0x110<br />
__x64_sys_statx+0xd5/0x130<br />
do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x380<br />
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3184b6a5a24ec9ee74087b2a550476f386df7dc2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3dd546e867e94c2f954bca45a961b6104ba708b6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a67e91d5f446e455dd9201cdd6e865f7078d251d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d146e96fef876492979658dce644305de35878d4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f15288c137d960836277d0e3ecc62de68e52f00f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f62ffdfb431bdfa4b6d24233b7fd830eca0b801e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff8f9bd1c46ee02d5558293915d42e82646d5ee9



