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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-68295" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-16T15:06:14.977Z" updatedAt: "2026-06-16T16:54:20.236Z" 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-2025-68295" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68295.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68295" title: "smb: client: fix memory leak in cifs_construct_tcon()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: fix memory leak in cifs_construct_tcon()\n\nWhen having a multiuser mount with domain= specified and using\ncifscreds, cifs_set_cifscreds() will end up setting @ctx-\u003edomainname,\nso it needs to be freed before leaving cifs_construct_tcon().\n\nThis fixes the following memory leak reported by kmemleak:\n\n mount.cifs //srv/share /mnt -o domain=ZELDA,multiuser,...\n su - testuser\n cifscreds add -d ZELDA -u testuser\n ...\n ls /mnt/1\n ...\n umount /mnt\n echo scan \u003e /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak\n cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak\n unreferenced object 0xffff8881203c3f08 (size 8):\n comm \"ls\", pid 5060, jiffies 4307222943\n hex dump (first 8 bytes):\n 5a 45 4c 44 41 00 cc cc ZELDA...\n backtrace (crc d109a8cf):\n __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x572/0x710\n kstrdup+0x3a/0x70\n cifs_sb_tlink+0x1209/0x1770 [cifs]\n cifs_get_fattr+0xe1/0xf50 [cifs]\n cifs_get_inode_info+0xb5/0x240 [cifs]\n cifs_revalidate_dentry_attr+0x2d1/0x470 [cifs]\n cifs_getattr+0x28e/0x450 [cifs]\n vfs_getattr_nosec+0x126/0x180\n vfs_statx+0xf6/0x220\n do_statx+0xab/0x110\n __x64_sys_statx+0xd5/0x130\n do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x380\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f2aee329a68f5a907bcff11a109dfe17c0b41aeb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ff8f9bd1c46ee02d5558293915d42e82646d5ee9"},{"version":"f2aee329a68f5a907bcff11a109dfe17c0b41aeb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d146e96fef876492979658dce644305de35878d4"},{"version":"f2aee329a68f5a907bcff11a109dfe17c0b41aeb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3dd546e867e94c2f954bca45a961b6104ba708b6"},{"version":"f2aee329a68f5a907bcff11a109dfe17c0b41aeb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f62ffdfb431bdfa4b6d24233b7fd830eca0b801e"},{"version":"f2aee329a68f5a907bcff11a109dfe17c0b41aeb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f15288c137d960836277d0e3ecc62de68e52f00f"},{"version":"f2aee329a68f5a907bcff11a109dfe17c0b41aeb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a67e91d5f446e455dd9201cdd6e865f7078d251d"},{"version":"f2aee329a68f5a907bcff11a109dfe17c0b41aeb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3184b6a5a24ec9ee74087b2a550476f386df7dc2"},{"version":"1456d3cea31114137fabf1110d20a2e2c6d6060f","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"16764d7486d02b1699ae16e91d7a577602398b17","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"904847402bd74a28164bd4d8da082d1eace7c190","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"325fa2a6729b74b2806b31725940cb54658515e5","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"8db988a982908b7bff76e095000adabf9c29698b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.4.194","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.5"},{"version":"4.9.194","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"4.14.146","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.19.75","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.2.17","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.3"},{"version":"5.10.247","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.197","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.159","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.119","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.61","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","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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