kernel: cifs: fix potential double free during failed mount

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's CIFS code in which a failed mount might lead to a double-free. An attacker with permissions to attempt to mount CIFS volumes could exploit this vulnerability to alter kernel memory, leading to a denial of service, altered system memory, or an escalation of...

kernel: cifs: fix potential double free during failed mount

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's CIFS code in which a failed mount might lead to a double-free. An attacker with permissions to attempt to mount CIFS volumes could exploit this vulnerability to alter kernel memory, leading to a denial of service, altered system memory, or an escalation of...

cifs.upcall makes an upcall to the wrong namespace in containerized environments

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SUSE CVE-2025-21963

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix integer overflow while processing acdirmax mount option User-provided mount parameter acdirmax of type u32 is intended to have an upper limit, but before it is validated, the value is converted from seconds to jiffies...

CVE-2025-21963 cifs: Fix integer overflow while processing acdirmax mount option

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix integer overflow while processing acdirmax mount option User-provided mount parameter acdirmax of type u32 is intended to have an upper limit, but before it is validated, the value is converted from seconds to jiffies...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53006

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix oops due to uncleared server-smbdconn in reconnect In smbddestroy, clear the server-smbdconn pointer after freeing the smbdconnection struct that it points to so that reconnection doesn't get confused...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49058

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: potential buffer overflow in handling symlinks Smatch printed a warning: arch/x86/crypto/poly1305glue.c:198 poly1305updatearch error: memcpy 'dctx-buf' too small 16 vs u32max It's caused because Smatch marks 'linklen' as...

Linux Kernel Resource Management Vulnerability

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system of the Linux Foundation in the United States. The Linux kernel suffers from a resource management error vulnerability that stems from the fact that the cifsputtcpsession function may still be attempting to reconnect to a D...

kernel: cifs: fix oops during encryption

An out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability exists in the linux kernel, such that A stack-allocated buffer backed by vmalloc was passed into crypto code scatterwalkmapandcopy → memcpy where a cross-page write occurred. This ended up hitting a read-only mapping, causing a page-level fault and...

CLSA-2024-1731933167 kernel: Fix of 36 CVEs

smb: client: fix use-after-free in smb2queryinfocompound CVE-2023-52751 - smb: client: prevent new fids from being removed by laundromat CVE-2023-52751 - cifs: fix dentry lookups in directory handle cache CVE-2023-52751 - uprobe: avoid out-of-bounds memory access of fetching args CVE-2024-50067 -...

kernel: smb: client: fix use-after-free in smb2_query_info_compound()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix use-after-free in smb2queryinfocompound The following UAF was triggered when running fstests generic/072 with KASAN enabled against Windows Server 2022 and mount options...

cifs: Fix buffer overflow when parsing NFS reparse points

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Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 27 for SLE 15 SP4)

This update for the Linux Kernel 5.14.21-15040024122 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: CVE-2021-47598: schcake: do not call cakedestroy from cakeinit bsc1227471. CVE-2023-52752: smb: client: fix use-after-free bug in cifsdebugdataprocshow bsc1225819. CVE-2024-35862:...

SUSE CVE-2024-49996

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix buffer overflow when parsing NFS reparse points ReparseDataLength is sum of the InodeType size and DataBuffer size. So to get DataBuffer size it is needed to subtract InodeType's size from ReparseDataLength. Function...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-49996

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix buffer overflow when parsing NFS reparse points ReparseDataLength is sum of the InodeType size and DataBuffer size. So to get DataBuffer size it is needed to subtract InodeType's size from ReparseDataLength. Function...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 7 for SLE 15 SP5)

This update for the Linux Kernel 5.14.21-1505005536 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: CVE-2024-35861: Fixed potential UAF in cifssignalcifsdforreconnect bsc1225312. CVE-2024-36899: gpiolib: cdev: Fix use after free in lineinfochangednotify bsc1225739. CVE-2024-40954:...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42307

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: fix potential null pointer use in destroyworkqueue in initcifs error path Dan Carpenter reported a Smack static checker warning: fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c:1981 initcifs error: we previously assumed 'serverclosewq' could be nul...

SUSE CVE-2022-0168

A denial of service DOS issue was found in the Linux kernel's smb2ioctlqueryinfo function in the fs/cifs/smb2ops.c Common Internet File System CIFS due to an incorrect return from the memdupuser function. This flaw allows a local, privileged CAPSYSADMIN attacker to crash the system...

kernel: cifs: fix underflow in parse_server_interfaces()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: fix underflow in parseserverinterfaces In this loop, we step through the buffer and after each item we check if the sizeleft is greater than the minimum size we need. However, the problem is that "bytesleft" is type ssizet...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-47544

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tcp: fix page frag corruption on page fault Steffen reported a TCP stream corruption for HTTP requests served by the apache web-server using a cifs mount-point and memory mapping the relevant file. The root cause is quite similar...