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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38488" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-28T11:21:52.085Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:02:19.784Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" 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-2025-38488" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38488.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38488" title: "smb: client: fix use-after-free in crypt_message when using async crypto" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: fix use-after-free in crypt_message when using async crypto\n\nThe CVE-2024-50047 fix removed asynchronous crypto handling from\ncrypt_message(), assuming all crypto operations are synchronous.\nHowever, when hardware crypto accelerators are used, this can cause\nuse-after-free crashes:\n\n crypt_message()\n // Allocate the creq buffer containing the req\n creq = smb2_get_aead_req(..., &req);\n\n // Async encryption returns -EINPROGRESS immediately\n rc = enc ? crypto_aead_encrypt(req) : crypto_aead_decrypt(req);\n\n // Free creq while async operation is still in progress\n kvfree_sensitive(creq, ...);\n\nHardware crypto modules often implement async AEAD operations for\nperformance. When crypto_aead_encrypt/decrypt() returns -EINPROGRESS,\nthe operation completes asynchronously. Without crypto_wait_req(),\nthe function immediately frees the request buffer, leading to crashes\nwhen the driver later accesses the freed memory.\n\nThis results in a use-after-free condition when the hardware crypto\ndriver later accesses the freed request structure, leading to kernel\ncrashes with NULL pointer dereferences.\n\nThe issue occurs because crypto_alloc_aead() with mask=0 doesn't\nguarantee synchronous operation. Even without CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC in\nthe mask, async implementations can be selected.\n\nFix by restoring the async crypto handling:\n- DECLARE_CRYPTO_WAIT(wait) for completion tracking\n- aead_request_set_callback() for async completion notification\n- crypto_wait_req() to wait for operation completion\n\nThis ensures the request buffer isn't freed until the crypto operation\ncompletes, whether synchronous or asynchronous, while preserving the\nCVE-2024-50047 fix." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8f14a476abba13144df5434871a7225fd29af633","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5d047b12f86cc3b9fde1171c02d9bccf4dba0632"},{"version":"ef51c0d544b1518b35364480317ab6d3468f205d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6550b2bef095d0dd2d2c8390d2ea4c3837028833"},{"version":"bce966530fd5542bbb422cb45ecb775f7a1a6bc3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9a1d3e8d40f151c2d5a5f40c410e6e433f62f438"},{"version":"0809fb86ad13b29e1d6d491364fc7ea4fb545995","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"15a0a5de49507062bc3be4014a403d8cea5533de"},{"version":"b0abcd65ec545701b8793e12bc27dc98042b151a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2a76bc2b24ed889a689fb1c9015307bf16aafb5b"},{"version":"b0abcd65ec545701b8793e12bc27dc98042b151a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ac90f6824fc44d2e55a82503ddfc95defb19ae0"},{"version":"b0abcd65ec545701b8793e12bc27dc98042b151a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b220bed63330c0e1733dc06ea8e75d5b9962b6b6"},{"version":"538c26d9bf70c90edc460d18c81008a4e555925a","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.10.237","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.241"},{"version":"5.15.181","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.190"},{"version":"6.1.128","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.147"},{"version":"6.6.57","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.100"},{"version":"6.11.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12"},{"version":"5.10.241","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.190","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.147","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.100","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","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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