๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2025-68226

HIGH 8.8

smb: client: fix incomplete backport in cfids_invalidation_worker()

CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix incomplete backport in cfids_invalidation_worker() The previous commit bdb596ceb4b7 ("smb: client: fix potential UAF in smb2_close_cached_fid()") was an incomplete backport and missed one kref_put() call in cfids_invalidation_worker() that should have been converted to close_cached_dir().

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Product linux
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Published Dec 16, 2025
Last Updated Aug 5, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

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

Linux / Linux
bdb596ceb4b7c3f28786a33840263728217fbcf5 < abd29b6e17a918fdd68352ce4813e167acc8727e
Linux / Linux
6.17.8 < 6.17.10

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abd29b6e17a918fdd68352ce4813e167acc8727e