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CVE-2025-39720

medium

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix refcount leak causing resource not released When ksmbd_conn_releasing(opinfo->…

Vendor / product: Linux — linux kernel

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix refcount leak causing resource not released When ksmbd_conn_releasing(opinfo->conn) returns true,the refcount was not decremented properly, causing a refcount leak that prevents the count from reaching zero and the memory from being released.

CVSS
5.5
5.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2025-09-05 18:15
Modified: 2026-10-30 13:18
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-03 07:33 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

linux / linux_kernel ≥5.15 <6.6.103, ≥6.7 <6.12.44, ≥6.13 <6.16.4, 6.17

Weakness classification (CWE)

NVD-CWE-Other

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36e010bb865fbaa1202fe9bcce3fd486d6db7606
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89bb430f621124af39bb31763c4a8b504c9651e2
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a7abce6e8c0e2145b346a6d4abf0d9655e9b0e8
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1d2bab4d53368a526c97aba92671dd71814f95a

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-03 07:33 UTC · record ↗

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