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  "record": {
    "id": "CVE-2025-21673",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21673",
    "idYear": 2025,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2025-01-31T11:25:35.922Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-08-05T11:53:31.173Z",
    "importedAt": "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z",
    "snapshot": {
      "id": "cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline",
      "at": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"
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    "facts": {
      "title": "smb: client: fix double free of TCP_Server_Info::hostname",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: fix double free of TCP_Server_Info::hostname\n\nWhen shutting down the server in cifs_put_tcp_session(), cifsd thread\nmight be reconnecting to multiple DFS targets before it realizes it\nshould exit the loop, so @server->hostname can't be freed as long as\ncifsd thread isn't done.  Otherwise the following can happen:\n\n  RIP: 0010:__slab_free+0x223/0x3c0\n  Code: 5e 41 5f c3 cc cc cc cc 4c 89 de 4c 89 cf 44 89 44 24 08 4c 89\n  1c 24 e8 fb cf 8e 00 44 8b 44 24 08 4c 8b 1c 24 e9 5f fe ff ff <0f>\n  0b 41 f7 45 08 00 0d 21 00 0f 85 2d ff ff ff e9 1f ff ff ff 80\n  RSP: 0018:ffffb26180dbfd08 EFLAGS: 00010246\n  RAX: ffff8ea34728e510 RBX: ffff8ea34728e500 RCX: 0000000000800068\n  RDX: 0000000000800068 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8ea340042400\n  RBP: ffffe112041ca380 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000\n  R10: 6170732e31303000 R11: 70726f632e786563 R12: ffff8ea34728e500\n  R13: ffff8ea340042400 R14: ffff8ea34728e500 R15: 0000000000800068\n  FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8ea66fd80000(0000)\n  000000\n  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n  CR2: 00007ffc25376080 CR3: 000000012a2ba001 CR4:\n  PKRU: 55555554\n  Call Trace:\n   <TASK>\n   ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c4/0x2df\n   ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c4/0x2df\n   ? __reconnect_target_unlocked+0x3e/0x160 [cifs]\n   ? __die_body.cold+0x8/0xd\n   ? die+0x2b/0x50\n   ? do_trap+0xce/0x120\n   ? __slab_free+0x223/0x3c0\n   ? do_error_trap+0x65/0x80\n   ? __slab_free+0x223/0x3c0\n   ? exc_invalid_op+0x4e/0x70\n   ? __slab_free+0x223/0x3c0\n   ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20\n   ? __slab_free+0x223/0x3c0\n   ? extract_hostname+0x5c/0xa0 [cifs]\n   ? extract_hostname+0x5c/0xa0 [cifs]\n   ? __kmalloc+0x4b/0x140\n   __reconnect_target_unlocked+0x3e/0x160 [cifs]\n   reconnect_dfs_server+0x145/0x430 [cifs]\n   cifs_handle_standard+0x1ad/0x1d0 [cifs]\n   cifs_demultiplex_thread+0x592/0x730 [cifs]\n   ? __pfx_cifs_demultiplex_thread+0x10/0x10 [cifs]\n   kthread+0xdd/0x100\n   ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n   ret_from_fork+0x29/0x50\n   </TASK>",
      "affected": [
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          "vendor": "Linux",
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              "version": "5.14.19",
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              "version": "5.15.3",
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              "version": "0",
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              "version": "6.6.74",
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              "version": "6.13",
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