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high 8.8

CVE-2025-22041 json

ksmbd: fix use-after-free in ksmbd_sessions_deregister()

published 2025-04-16 18 mo ago modified 2026-08-05 3 mo ago also EUVD-2025-11254

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 53%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ksmbd: fix use-after-free in ksmbd_sessions_deregister()

In multichannel mode, UAF issue can occur in session_deregister when the second channel sets up a session through the connection of the first channel. session that is freed through the global session table can be accessed again through ->sessions of connection.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.1.134, 6.6.87, 6.12.23, 6.13.11, 6.14.2, 6.15
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.135-1
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.12.25-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-22041

  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-86.87
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1041.43
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1042.45
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1038.43
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1039.39
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1041.47
  • linux-gkeop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1025.28
  • linux-raspi Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1041.45

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22041

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-22041 updated cvss 7.8

kernel: ksmbd: fix use-after-free in ksmbd_sessions_deregister()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADP 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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