CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-38575

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-04-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-04-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: use aead_request_free to match aead_request_alloc Use aead_request_free() instead of kfree() to properly free memory allocated by aead_request_alloc(). This ensures sensitive crypto data is zeroed before being freed.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15 < 5.15.180) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.134) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.87) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.23) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.13.11) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.14 < 6.14.2) • debian debian linux 11.0

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