Bug 2422833 (CVE-2025-68295) - CVE-2025-68295 kernel: smb: client: fix memory leak in cifs_construct_tcon()
Summary: CVE-2025-68295 kernel: smb: client: fix memory leak in cifs_construct_tcon()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-68295
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-16 16:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-16 17:49 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-16 16:05:11 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: client: fix memory leak in cifs_construct_tcon()

When having a multiuser mount with domain= specified and using
cifscreds, cifs_set_cifscreds() will end up setting @ctx->domainname,
so it needs to be freed before leaving cifs_construct_tcon().

This fixes the following memory leak reported by kmemleak:

  mount.cifs //srv/share /mnt -o domain=ZELDA,multiuser,...
  su - testuser
  cifscreds add -d ZELDA -u testuser
  ...
  ls /mnt/1
  ...
  umount /mnt
  echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
  cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
  unreferenced object 0xffff8881203c3f08 (size 8):
    comm "ls", pid 5060, jiffies 4307222943
    hex dump (first 8 bytes):
      5a 45 4c 44 41 00 cc cc                          ZELDA...
    backtrace (crc d109a8cf):
      __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x572/0x710
      kstrdup+0x3a/0x70
      cifs_sb_tlink+0x1209/0x1770 [cifs]
      cifs_get_fattr+0xe1/0xf50 [cifs]
      cifs_get_inode_info+0xb5/0x240 [cifs]
      cifs_revalidate_dentry_attr+0x2d1/0x470 [cifs]
      cifs_getattr+0x28e/0x450 [cifs]
      vfs_getattr_nosec+0x126/0x180
      vfs_statx+0xf6/0x220
      do_statx+0xab/0x110
      __x64_sys_statx+0xd5/0x130
      do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x380
      entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f


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