CVE-2025-68219 (GCVE-0-2025-68219)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-16 13:57 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:49
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Title
cifs: fix memory leak in smb3_fs_context_parse_param error path
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: fix memory leak in smb3_fs_context_parse_param error path Add proper cleanup of ctx->source and fc->source to the cifs_parse_mount_err error handler. This ensures that memory allocated for the source strings is correctly freed on all error paths, matching the cleanup already performed in the success path by smb3_cleanup_fs_context_contents(). Pointers are also set to NULL after freeing to prevent potential double-free issues. This change fixes a memory leak originally detected by syzbot. The leak occurred when processing Opt_source mount options if an error happened after ctx->source and fc->source were successfully allocated but before the function completed. The specific leak sequence was: 1. ctx->source = smb3_fs_context_fullpath(ctx, '/') allocates memory 2. fc->source = kstrdup(ctx->source, GFP_KERNEL) allocates more memory 3. A subsequent error jumps to cifs_parse_mount_err 4. The old error handler freed passwords but not the source strings, causing the memory to leak. This issue was not addressed by commit e8c73eb7db0a ("cifs: client: fix memory leak in smb3_fs_context_parse_param"), which only fixed leaks from repeated fsconfig() calls but not this error path. Patch updated with minor change suggested by kernel test robot
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Linux Linux Affected: 24e0a1eff9e2b9835a6e7c17039dfb6ecfd81f1f , < 7627864dc3121f39e220f5253a227edf472de59e (git)
Affected: 24e0a1eff9e2b9835a6e7c17039dfb6ecfd81f1f , < 48d69290270891f988e72edddd9688c20515421d (git)
Affected: 24e0a1eff9e2b9835a6e7c17039dfb6ecfd81f1f , < 37010021d7e0341bb241ca00bcbae31f2c50b23f (git)
Affected: 24e0a1eff9e2b9835a6e7c17039dfb6ecfd81f1f , < 7e4d9120cfa413dd34f4f434befc5dbe6c38b2e5 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.118 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.60 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.10 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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