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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-71151"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-01-23T14:15:17.916Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T16:03:26.099Z"
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-2025-71151"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-71151.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-71151"
title: "cifs: Fix memory and information leak in smb3_reconfigure()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncifs: Fix memory and information leak in smb3_reconfigure()\n\nIn smb3_reconfigure(), if smb3_sync_session_ctx_passwords() fails, the\nfunction returns immediately without freeing and erasing the newly\nallocated new_password and new_password2. This causes both a memory leak\nand a potential information leak.\n\nFix this by calling kfree_sensitive() on both password buffers before\nreturning in this error case."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"880a661e67648a3ffe85405e8de5f50650a3c0b2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bc390b2737205163e48cc1655f6a0c8cd55b02fc"},{"version":"0e4145774c016530bf99afb3675a1a0593c35642","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5679cc90bb5415801fa29041da0319d9e15d295d"},{"version":"0f0e357902957fba28ed31bde0d6921c6bd1485d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bb82aaee16907dc4d0b9b0ca7953ceb3edc328c6"},{"version":"0f0e357902957fba28ed31bde0d6921c6bd1485d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cb6d5aa9c0f10074f1ad056c3e2278ad2cc7ec8d"},{"version":"674ba43944dab8e8f87434e25d9d10c5152584bc","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.6.64","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.120"},{"version":"6.12.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.64"},{"version":"6.11.11","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.13"},{"version":"6.6.120","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.64","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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