{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2025-21955", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2024-12-29T08:45:45.790Z", "datePublished": "2025-04-01T15:46:55.724Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T11:55:35.788Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T11:55:35.788Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: prevent connection release during oplock break notification\n\nksmbd_work could be freed when after connection release.\nIncrement r_count of ksmbd_conn to indicate that requests\nare not finished yet and to not release the connection." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 8.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:N - ksmbd is the in-kernel SMB server listening on TCP/445; the entire path (oplock grant, oplock break trigger, and the connection reset that wins the race) is driven purely by SMB2 traffic from remote clients.\nAC:L - The attacker owns both sides of the race — connection A holds the oplock, connection B triggers the break notification, and the attacker chooses exactly when to reset A's socket — and can retry the sequence unlimited times over the network.\nPR:L - Reaching an oplock/lease break requires an established SMB2 session and tree connect (SMB2_CREATE with an oplock or lease context), so valid low-privileged share credentials (or a guest mapping) are needed; it is not a pre-authentication code path.\nUI:N - No victim action is required — the attacker's own two connections create the oplock, trigger the break, and tear down the connection entirely on their own schedule.\nS:U - The use-after-free is confined to kernel memory within the same security authority; no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - The freed ksmbd_conn/tcp_transport objects are dereferenced after release, and reclaiming those kmalloc-64 slots with attacker-sprayed data yields a read primitive over kernel memory and leaks server/session state.\nI:H - ksmbd_conn_write() performs an indirect call through conn->transport->ops->writev read out of the freed transport, giving control-flow hijack and arbitrary-write potential once the slab is reclaimed with controlled contents.\nA:H - Even without successful grooming the stale dereference of the freed connection, transport, and released socket reliably oopses or panics the kernel, killing the SMB server host." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "fs/smb/server/connection.c", "fs/smb/server/connection.h", "fs/smb/server/oplock.c", "fs/smb/server/server.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf", "lessThan": "09aeab68033161cb54f194da93e51a11aee6144b", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf", "lessThan": "a4261bbc33fbf99b99c80aa3a2c5097611802980", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf", "lessThan": "f17d1c63a76b0fe8e9c78023a86507a3a6d62cfa", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf", "lessThan": "3aa660c059240e0c795217182cf7df32909dd917", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "fs/smb/server/connection.c", "fs/smb/server/connection.h", "fs/smb/server/oplock.c", "fs/smb/server/server.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "5.15", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "5.15", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.6.84", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.12.20", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.13.8", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.13.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.14", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.15", "versionEndExcluding": "6.6.84" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.15", "versionEndExcluding": "6.12.20" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.15", "versionEndExcluding": "6.13.8" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.15", "versionEndExcluding": "6.14" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09aeab68033161cb54f194da93e51a11aee6144b" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4261bbc33fbf99b99c80aa3a2c5097611802980" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f17d1c63a76b0fe8e9c78023a86507a3a6d62cfa" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3aa660c059240e0c795217182cf7df32909dd917" } ], "title": "ksmbd: prevent connection release during oplock break notification", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } } } }