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CVE-2025-37924

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.8 Published: 2025-05-20 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix use-after-free in kerberos authentication Setting sess->user = NULL was introduced to fix the dangling pointer created by ksmbd_free_user. However, it is possible another thread could be operating on the session and make use of sess->user after it has been passed to ksmbd_free_user but before sess->user is set to NULL.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux KernelDebian Debian Linux

Weakness Type

CWE-416

References