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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-68263" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-16T14:45:05.218Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:48.374Z" 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-2025-68263" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68263.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68263" title: "ksmbd: ipc: fix use-after-free in ipc_msg_send_request" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: ipc: fix use-after-free in ipc_msg_send_request\n\nipc_msg_send_request() waits for a generic netlink reply using an\nipc_msg_table_entry on the stack. The generic netlink handler\n(handle_generic_event()/handle_response()) fills entry-\u003eresponse under\nipc_msg_table_lock, but ipc_msg_send_request() used to validate and free\nentry-\u003eresponse without holding the same lock.\n\nUnder high concurrency this allows a race where handle_response() is\ncopying data into entry-\u003eresponse while ipc_msg_send_request() has just\nfreed it, leading to a slab-use-after-free reported by KASAN in\nhandle_generic_event():\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in handle_generic_event+0x3c4/0x5f0 [ksmbd]\n Write of size 12 at addr ffff888198ee6e20 by task pool/109349\n ...\n Freed by task:\n kvfree\n ipc_msg_send_request [ksmbd]\n ksmbd_rpc_open -\u003e ksmbd_session_rpc_open [ksmbd]\n\nFix by:\n- Taking ipc_msg_table_lock in ipc_msg_send_request() while validating\n entry-\u003eresponse, freeing it when invalid, and removing the entry from\n ipc_msg_table.\n- Returning the final entry-\u003eresponse pointer to the caller only after\n the hash entry is removed under the lock.\n- Returning NULL in the error path, preserving the original API\n semantics.\n\nThis makes all accesses to entry-\u003eresponse consistent with\nhandle_response(), which already updates and fills the response buffer\nunder ipc_msg_table_lock, and closes the race that allowed the UAF." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"de85fb58f9967ba024bb08e0041613d37b57b4d1"},{"version":"0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"708a620b471a14466f1f52c90bf3f65ebdb31460"},{"version":"0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5ac763713a1ef8f9a8bda1dbd81f0318d67baa4e"},{"version":"0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"759c8c30cfa8706c518e56f67971b1f0932f4b9b"},{"version":"0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8229c6ca50cea701e25a7ee25f48441b582ec5fa"},{"version":"0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1fab1fa091f5aa97265648b53ea031deedd26235"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"6.1.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.120","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.62","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","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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