# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40320"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-08T00:46:47.670Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:44.061Z"
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-2025-40320"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40320.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40320"
title: "smb: client: fix potential cfid UAF in smb2_query_info_compound"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: fix potential cfid UAF in smb2_query_info_compound\n\nWhen smb2_query_info_compound() retries, a previously allocated cfid may\nhave been freed in the first attempt.\nBecause cfid wasn't reset on replay, later cleanup could act on a stale\npointer, leading to a potential use-after-free.\n\nReinitialize cfid to NULL under the replay label.\n\nExample trace (trimmed):\n\nrefcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.\nWARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 11224 at ../lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0x9c/0x110\n[...]\nRIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x9c/0x110\n[...]\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n smb2_query_info_compound+0x29c/0x5c0 [cifs f90b72658819bd21c94769b6a652029a07a7172f]\n ? step_into+0x10d/0x690\n ? __legitimize_path+0x28/0x60\n smb2_queryfs+0x6a/0xf0 [cifs f90b72658819bd21c94769b6a652029a07a7172f]\n smb311_queryfs+0x12d/0x140 [cifs f90b72658819bd21c94769b6a652029a07a7172f]\n ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x18a/0x340\n ? getname_flags+0x46/0x1e0\n cifs_statfs+0x9f/0x2b0 [cifs f90b72658819bd21c94769b6a652029a07a7172f]\n statfs_by_dentry+0x67/0x90\n vfs_statfs+0x16/0xd0\n user_statfs+0x54/0xa0\n __do_sys_statfs+0x20/0x50\n do_syscall_64+0x58/0x80"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"433042a91f9373241307725b52de573933ffedbf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"939c4e33005e2a56ea8fcedddf0da92df864bd3b"},{"version":"4f1fffa2376922f3d1d506e49c0fd445b023a28e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"327f89c21601ebb7889f8c97754b76f08ce95a0c"},{"version":"4f1fffa2376922f3d1d506e49c0fd445b023a28e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b556c278d43f4707a9073ca74d55581b4f279806"},{"version":"4f1fffa2376922f3d1d506e49c0fd445b023a28e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5c76f9961c170552c1d07c830b5e145475151600"},{"version":"6.6.32","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.117"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"6.6.117","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.58","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.8","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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