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THREAT OPSThreat 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

lownvdPublished 2025-01-31

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

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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21673