CVE-2025-37778 (GCVE-0-2025-37778)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-01 13:07
Modified
2025-11-03 19:54
Severity ?
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Version: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf
Version: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf
Version: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf
Version: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf
Version: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf
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