Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 6, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2025-40286
CVE-2025-40286
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb/server: fix possible memory leak in smb2_read()
Memory leak occurs when ksmbd_vfs_read() fails. Fix this by adding the missing kvfree().
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References
5- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0797c6cf3b857cc229ab2bc69552938dcd738d78nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/63d8706a2c09a0c29b8b0e8a44bc7a1339685de9nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fced056d2cc8d01b326e6fcfabaacb9850b71a4nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfda5422a16651d0bf864ec468b1c216e1b10d91nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1305587731886da37a214cda812ade246c653b0nvd
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