CVE-2023-53751

CVE-2023-53751 affects the Linux kernel CIFS subsystem, specifically TCP_Server_Info::hostname. The vulnerability arises because hostname may be updated during reconnect, and access needs to be protected outside the reconnect path, preventing potential use-after-free bugs. Impact is described as ...

ALSA-2025:22854 Moderate: kernel security update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: cifs: Fix oops due to uninitialised variable CVE-2025-38737 kernel: can: j1939: implement NETDEVUNREGISTER notification handler CVE-2025-39925 kernel: Bluetooth: hcievent: Fix UAF in...

Important: kernel6.12

Issue Overview: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: essiv - Check ssize for decryption and in-place encryption CVE-2025-40019 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksmmadvise CVE-2025-40040...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-40268

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - cifs: client: fix memory leak in smb3fscontextparseparam The user calls fsconfig twice, but when the program exits, free only frees ctx-source for the second...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-53751

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - cifs: fix potential use-after-free bugs in TCPServerInfo::hostname TCPServerInfo::hostname may be updated once or many times during reconnect, so protect its...

EUVD-2025-201587

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: client: fix memory leak in smb3fscontextparseparam The user calls fsconfig twice, but when the program exits, free only frees ctx-source for the second fsconfig, not the first. Regarding fc-source, there is no code in the f...

CVE-2025-40268

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: client: fix memory leak in smb3fscontextparseparam The user calls fsconfig twice, but when the program exits, free only frees ctx-source for the second fsconfig, not the first. Regarding fc-source, there is no code in the f...

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40268

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: client: fix memory leak in smb3fscontextparseparam The user calls fsconfig twice, but when the program exits, free only frees ctx-source for the second fsconfig, not the first. Regarding fc-source, there is no code in the f...

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40268

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: client: fix memory leak in smb3fscontextparseparam The user calls fsconfig twice, but when the program exits, free only frees ctx-source for the second fsconfig, not the first. Regarding fc-source, there is no code in the f...

CVE-2025-40268 cifs: client: fix memory leak in smb3_fs_context_parse_param

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: client: fix memory leak in smb3fscontextparseparam The user calls fsconfig twice, but when the program exits, free only frees ctx-source for the second fsconfig, not the first. Regarding fc-source, there is no code in the f...

CVE-2025-40268

The CVE-2025-40268 issue affects the Linux kernel CIFS client, specifically smb3_fs_context_parse_param. The vulnerability arises when an application calls fsconfig twice; on exit, free() only releases the first fsconfig’s ctx->source, not the first context’s, and there is no reclamation for f...

kernel: smb: client: fix use-after-free in cifs_oplock_break

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix use-after-free in cifsoplockbreak A race condition can occur in cifsoplockbreak leading to a use-after-free of the cinode structure when unmounting: cifsoplockbreak cifsFileInfoputcfile cifsFileInfoputfinal...

Photon OS 5.0: Cifs PHSA-2025-5.0-0691

An update of the cifs package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2025-5.0-0691. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Important Photon OS Security Update - PHSA-2025-5.0-0691

Updates of 'cifs-utils', 'linux-esx', 'linux' packages of Photon OS have been released...

Important Photon OS Security Update - PHSA-2025-5.0-91-0691

Updates of 'linux', 'linux-esx', 'cifs-utils' packages of Photon OS have been released...

kernel: smb: client: fix potential UAF in cifs_stats_proc_write()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix potential UAF in cifsstatsprocwrite Skip sessions that are being teared down status == SESEXITING to avoid UAF...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

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...

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...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...