CVE-2025-68219

Linux Kernel 5.11-6.17.10 - Memory Leak in SMB3 Mount Option Error Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: fix memory leak in smb3_fs_context_parse_param error path Add proper cleanup of ctx->source and fc->source to the cifs_parse_mount_err error handler. This ensures that memory allocated for the source strings is correctly freed on all error paths, matching the cleanup already performed in the success path by smb3_cleanup_fs_context_contents(). Pointers are also set to NULL after freeing to prevent potential double-free issues. This change fixes a memory leak originally detected by syzbot. The leak occurred when processing Opt_source mount options if an error happened after ctx->source and fc->source were successfully allocated but before the function completed. The specific leak sequence was: 1. ctx->source = smb3_fs_context_fullpath(ctx, '/') allocates memory 2. fc->source = kstrdup(ctx->source, GFP_KERNEL) allocates more memory 3. A subsequent error jumps to cifs_parse_mount_err 4. The old error handler freed passwords but not the source strings, causing the memory to leak. This issue was not addressed by commit e8c73eb7db0a ("cifs: client: fix memory leak in smb3_fs_context_parse_param"), which only fixed leaks from repeated fsconfig() calls but not this error path. Patch updated with minor change suggested by kernel test robot

Scores

EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 8.4%

Details

Status published
Products (13)
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 6.6.118linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.17.10linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.60linux
Linux/Linux < 5.11
Linux/Linux 24e0a1eff9e2b9835a6e7c17039dfb6ecfd81f1f - 37010021d7e0341bb241ca00bcbae31f2c50b23f
Linux/Linux 24e0a1eff9e2b9835a6e7c17039dfb6ecfd81f1f - 48d69290270891f988e72edddd9688c20515421d
Linux/Linux 24e0a1eff9e2b9835a6e7c17039dfb6ecfd81f1f - 7627864dc3121f39e220f5253a227edf472de59e
Linux/Linux 24e0a1eff9e2b9835a6e7c17039dfb6ecfd81f1f - 7e4d9120cfa413dd34f4f434befc5dbe6c38b2e5
Linux/Linux 5.11
Linux/Linux 6.12.60 - 6.12.*
... and 3 more
Published Dec 16, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026