CVE-2025-40268

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: client: fix memory leak in smb3_fs_context_parse_param 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 fs context related to its memory reclamation. To fix this memory leak, release the source memory corresponding to ctx or fc before each parsing. syzbot reported: BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff888128afa360 (size 96): backtrace (crc 79c9c7ba): kstrdup+0x3c/0x80 mm/util.c:84 smb3_fs_context_parse_param+0x229b/0x36c0 fs/smb/client/fs_context.c:1444 BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff888112c7d900 (size 96): backtrace (crc 79c9c7ba): smb3_fs_context_fullpath+0x70/0x1b0 fs/smb/client/fs_context.c:629 smb3_fs_context_parse_param+0x2266/0x36c0 fs/smb/client/fs_context.c:1438

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References

Link	Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4515743cc7a42e1d67468402a6420c195532a6fa
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48c17341577e25a22feb13d694374b61d974edbc
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/868fc62811d3fabcf5685e14f36377a855d5412d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8c73eb7db0a498cd4b22d2819e6ab1a6f506bd6

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Information

Published : 2025-12-06 22:15

Updated : 2026-06-17 09:21

NVD link : CVE-2025-40268

Mitre link : CVE-2025-40268

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-40268

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CWE

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