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CVE-2025-71223 (GCVE-0-2025-71223)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-14 16:27 – Updated: 2026-05-23 16:03
VLAI
Title
smb/server: fix refcount leak in smb2_open()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb/server: fix refcount leak in smb2_open() When ksmbd_vfs_getattr() fails, the reference count of ksmbd_file must be released.
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: 8df4bcdb0a4232192b2445256c39b787d58ef14d , < 2456fde2b137703328f1695f60c68fe488d17e36 (git)
Affected: c8efcc786146a951091588e5fa7e3c754850cb3c , < 39ca11ff158c98fb092176f06047628c54bcf7a1 (git)
Affected: c8efcc786146a951091588e5fa7e3c754850cb3c , < 4665e52bde3b1f8f442895ce7d88fa62a43e48c4 (git)
Affected: c8efcc786146a951091588e5fa7e3c754850cb3c , < f416c556997aa56ec4384c6b6efd6a0e6ac70aa7 (git)
Affected: 6.6.32 , < 6.6.124 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.9
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.9 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.124 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.70 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.10 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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