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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) 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"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21673" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21673.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21673" 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-\u003ehostname 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 \u003c0f\u003e\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 \u003cTASK\u003e\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 \u003c/TASK\u003e" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7be3248f313930ff3d3436d4e9ddbe9fccc1f541","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1ea68070338518a1d31ce71e6abfe1b30001b27a"},{"version":"7be3248f313930ff3d3436d4e9ddbe9fccc1f541","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a2be5f2ba34d0c6d5ef2624b24e3d852561fcd6a"},{"version":"7be3248f313930ff3d3436d4e9ddbe9fccc1f541","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fa2f9906a7b333ba757a7dbae0713d8a5396186e"},{"version":"49f933bb3016269dc50074eac5f6033d127644f1","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"1c35a216ef77db708178ca225d796271f2f60a7a","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.14.19","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.15.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.6.74","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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