Bug 2536694 (CVE-2026-90175) - CVE-2026-90175 kernel: smb: server: fix leak of ksmbd_ipc_login_request_ext() returned buffer
Summary: CVE-2026-90175 kernel: smb: server: fix leak of ksmbd_ipc_login_request_ext()...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-90175
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-09-17 19:07 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-05 13:40 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 19:07:28 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: server: fix leak of ksmbd_ipc_login_request_ext() returned buffer

Free it unconditionally after ksmbd_alloc_user() calls.

kmemleak splat:
  unreferenced object 0xffff888103b83540 (size 192):
    comm "pool-0", pid 16970, jiffies 4377290937
    hex dump (first 32 bytes):
      00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    backtrace (crc 408ccc66):
      __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x730/0x920
      handle_generic_event+0xec/0x1a0 [ksmbd]
      genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xe0/0x130
      genl_rcv_msg+0x181/0x290
      netlink_rcv_skb+0x4f/0x100
      genl_rcv+0x28/0x40
      netlink_unicast+0x1e6/0x2c0
      netlink_sendmsg+0x20a/0x450
      ____sys_sendmsg+0x2e8/0x310
      ___sys_sendmsg+0x78/0xc0
      __sys_sendmsg+0x63/0xc0
      do_syscall_64+0xa1/0x670
      entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e


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