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CVE-2025-71153 (GCVE-0-2025-71153)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-23 14:25 – Updated: 2026-05-23 16:03
VLAI
Title
ksmbd: Fix memory leak in get_file_all_info()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: Fix memory leak in get_file_all_info() In get_file_all_info(), if vfs_getattr() fails, the function returns immediately without freeing the allocated filename, leading to a memory leak. Fix this by freeing the filename before returning in this error case.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: c8f7ad2df083c510e640c0bf76166593cc116ff2 , < 5012b4c812230ae066902a00442708c999111183 (git)
Affected: 5614c8c487f6af627614dd2efca038e4afe0c6d7 , < 676907004256e0226c7ed3691db9f431404ca258 (git)
Affected: 5614c8c487f6af627614dd2efca038e4afe0c6d7 , < d026f47db68638521df8543535ef863814fb01b1 (git)
Affected: 5614c8c487f6af627614dd2efca038e4afe0c6d7 , < 0c56693b06a68476ba113db6347e7897475f9e4c (git)
Affected: f9278ba4967027ad2bf001694f0e489c7bbae6d5 (git)
Affected: 88779f09295d82b86601fe42595748488bf5e20c (git)
Affected: 6.6.24 , < 6.6.120 (semver)
Affected: 6.7.12 , < 6.8 (semver)
Affected: 6.8.3 , < 6.9 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.9
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.9 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.120 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.64 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.4 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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