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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-68219"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-16T13:57:13.461Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:49:01.446Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z"
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-2025-68219"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68219.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68219"
title: "cifs: fix memory leak in smb3_fs_context_parse_param error path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncifs: fix memory leak in smb3_fs_context_parse_param error path\n\nAdd proper cleanup of ctx-\u003esource and fc-\u003esource to the\ncifs_parse_mount_err error handler. This ensures that memory allocated\nfor the source strings is correctly freed on all error paths, matching\nthe cleanup already performed in the success path by\nsmb3_cleanup_fs_context_contents().\nPointers are also set to NULL after freeing to prevent potential\ndouble-free issues.\n\nThis change fixes a memory leak originally detected by syzbot. The\nleak occurred when processing Opt_source mount options if an error\nhappened after ctx-\u003esource and fc-\u003esource were successfully\nallocated but before the function completed.\n\nThe specific leak sequence was:\n1. ctx-\u003esource = smb3_fs_context_fullpath(ctx, '/') allocates memory\n2. fc-\u003esource = kstrdup(ctx-\u003esource, GFP_KERNEL) allocates more memory\n3. A subsequent error jumps to cifs_parse_mount_err\n4. The old error handler freed passwords but not the source strings,\ncausing the memory to leak.\n\nThis issue was not addressed by commit e8c73eb7db0a (\"cifs: client:\nfix memory leak in smb3_fs_context_parse_param\"), which only fixed\nleaks from repeated fsconfig() calls but not this error path.\n\nPatch updated with minor change suggested by kernel test robot"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"24e0a1eff9e2b9835a6e7c17039dfb6ecfd81f1f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7627864dc3121f39e220f5253a227edf472de59e"},{"version":"24e0a1eff9e2b9835a6e7c17039dfb6ecfd81f1f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"48d69290270891f988e72edddd9688c20515421d"},{"version":"24e0a1eff9e2b9835a6e7c17039dfb6ecfd81f1f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"37010021d7e0341bb241ca00bcbae31f2c50b23f"},{"version":"24e0a1eff9e2b9835a6e7c17039dfb6ecfd81f1f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7e4d9120cfa413dd34f4f434befc5dbe6c38b2e5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"6.6.118","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.60","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.10","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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