CVE-2025-37778

Publication date

2025-05-01 13:07:16

Family

Linux

State

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: Fix dangling pointer in krb_authenticate krb_authenticate frees sess->user and does not set the pointer to NULL. It calls ksmbd_krb5_authenticate to reinitialise sess->user but that function may return without doing so. If that happens then smb2_sess_setup, which calls krb_authenticate, will be accessing freed memory when it later uses sess->user.