# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40285"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-06T21:51:09.590Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:09:15.214Z"
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-2025-40285"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40285.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40285"
title: "smb/server: fix possible refcount leak in smb2_sess_setup()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb/server: fix possible refcount leak in smb2_sess_setup()\n\nReference count of ksmbd_session will leak when session need reconnect.\nFix this by adding the missing ksmbd_user_session_put()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"37a0e2b362b3150317fb6e2139de67b1e29ae5ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6fc935f798d44a8eb8a5e6659198399fbf57b981"},{"version":"450a844c045ff0895d41b05a1cbe8febd1acfcfd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e671f9bb97805771380c98de944e2ceab6949188"},{"version":"a39e31e22a535d47b14656a7d6a893c7f6cf758c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dcc51dfe6ff26b52cac106865a172ac982d78401"},{"version":"b95629435b84b9ecc0c765995204a4d8a913ed52","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d37b2c81c83d6c0d5ca582f4fe73c672983f9e0d"},{"version":"b95629435b84b9ecc0c765995204a4d8a913ed52","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"379510a815cb2e64eb0a379cb62295d6ade65df0"},{"version":"2107ab40629aeabbec369cf34b8cf0f288c3eb1b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.1.121","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.159"},{"version":"6.6.67","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.117"},{"version":"6.12.6","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.59"},{"version":"5.15.176","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.13"},{"version":"6.1.159","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.117","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.59","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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