CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-32255
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-08-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-30
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-772
Description
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ksmbd component. A memory leak can occur if a client sends a session setup request with an unknown NTLMSSP message type, potentially leading to resource exhaustion.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-32255 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2385884 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6d7cb549c2ca20e1f07593f15e936fd54b763028 git.kernel.org
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-703/ www.zerodayinitiative.com