THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2025-21673 (CRITICAL 9.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: fix double free of TCP_Server_Info::hostname
When shutting down the server in cifs_put_tcp_session(), cifsd thread
might be reconnecting to multiple DFS targets before it realizes it
should exit th
[NVD] CVE-2025-21673 (CRITICAL 9.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix double free of TCP_Server_Info::hostname When shutting down the server in cifs_put_tcp_session(), cifsd thread might be reconnecting to multiple DFS targets before it realizes it should exit th
CVE-2025-21673 CVSS: 9.8 CRITICAL Published: 2025-01-31T12:15:28.463
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: fix double free of TCP_Server_Info::hostname
When shutting down the server in cifs_put_tcp_session(), cifsd thread might be reconnecting to multiple DFS targets before it realizes it should exit the loop, so @server->hostname can't be freed as lon
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2025-21673cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21673