CVE-2025-38575 (GCVE-0-2025-38575)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-18 07:01 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:30
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
ksmbd: use aead_request_free to match aead_request_alloc
Summary
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
Assigner
References
8 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 , < 571b342d4688801fc1f6a1934389dac09425dc93
(git)
Affected: e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 , < a6b594868268c3a7bfaeced912525cd2c445529a (git) Affected: e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 , < 1de7fec4d3012672e31eeb6679ea60f7ca010ef9 (git) Affected: e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 , < 3e341dbd5f5a6e5a558e67da80731dc38a7f758c (git) Affected: e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 , < aef10ccd74512c52e30c5ee19d0031850973e78d (git) Affected: e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 , < 46caeae23035192b9cc41872c827f30d0233f16e (git) Affected: e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 , < 6171063e9d046ffa46f51579b2ca4a43caef581a (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.180 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.134 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.87 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.23 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.13.11 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.14.2 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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