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CVE-2025-37778

ksmbd: Fix dangling pointer in krb_authenticate PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: Fix dangling pointer in krb_authenticate krb_authenticate frees sess->user and does not set the pointer to NULL. It calls ksmbd_krb5_authenticate to reinitialise sess->user but that function may return without doing so. If that happens then smb2_sess_setup, which calls krb_authenticate, will be accessing free'd memory when it later uses sess->user.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf before b61f04d5d73c53d183019bafe22fb700a739bac5; affected 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf before d5b554bc8d554ed6ddf443d3db2fad9f665cec10; affected 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf before 1db2451de23e98bc864c6a6e52aa0d82c91cb325; affected 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf before 6e30c0e10210c714f3d4453dc258d4abcc70364e; affected 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf before e83e39a5f6a01a81411a4558a59a10f87aa88dd6; affected 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf before 1e440d5b25b7efccb3defe542a73c51005799a5f
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.15; unaffected 0 before 5.15; unaffected 5.15.203 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.135 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.88 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.25 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.14.4 through 6.14.*; unaffected 6.15 through *

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