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GHSA-54W6-M43P-JFFG

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-08-16 06:30 – Updated: 2025-11-05 00:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ksmbd: limit repeated connections from clients with the same IP

Repeated connections from clients with the same IP address may exhaust the max connections and prevent other normal client connections. This patch limit repeated connections from clients with the same IP.

Severity ?

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2025-38501 (GCVE-0-2025-38501)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-16 05:30 – Updated: 2025-11-04 21:10

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: limit repeated connections from clients with the same IP Repeated connections from clients with the same IP address may exhaust the max connections and prevent other normal client connections. This patch limit repeated connections from clients with the same IP.

Severity ?

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb092fc3a62972a4a…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa1c47af4ff641cf9…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e5d91d3e6c62a975…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1ce9258bcbce2491…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6073afe64510c302b…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6bb9193974059ddb…

Impacted products

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Linux

Affected: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf , < cb092fc3a62972a4aa47c9fe356c2c6a01cd840b (git)
Affected: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf , < fa1c47af4ff641cf9197ecdb1f8240cbb30389c1 (git)
Affected: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf , < 7e5d91d3e6c62a9755b36f29c35288f06c3cd86b (git)
Affected: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf , < f1ce9258bcbce2491f9f71f7882b6eed0b33ec65 (git)
Affected: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf , < 6073afe64510c302b7a0683a01e32c012eff715d (git)
Affected: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf , < e6bb9193974059ddbb0ce7763fa3882bd60d4dc3 (git)

Linux

Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.148 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.102 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.42 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.10 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.1 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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