🛡️ CVE-2025-38051 — debian-linux

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-416 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

smb: client: Fix use-after-free in cifs_fill_dirent

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: client: Fix use-after-free in cifs_fill_dirent

There is a race condition in the readdir concurrency process, which may

access the rsp buffer after it has been released, triggering the

following KASAN warning.

==================================================================

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in cifs_fill_dirent+0xb03/0xb60 [cifs]

Read of size 4 at addr ffff8880099b819c by task a.out/342975

CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 342975 Comm: a.out Not tainted 6.15.0-rc6+ #240 PREEMPT(full)

Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014

Call Trace:

<TASK>

dump_stack_lvl+0x53/0x70

print_report+0xce/0x640

kasan_report+0xb8/0xf0

cifs_fill_dirent+0xb03/0xb60 [cifs]

cifs_readdir+0x12cb/0x3190 [cifs]

iterate_dir+0x1a1/0x520

__x64_sys_getdents+0x134/0x220

do_syscall_64+0x4b/0x110

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

RIP: 0033:0x7f996f64b9f9

Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89

f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01

f0 ff ff 0d f7 c3 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 8

RSP: 002b:00007f996f53de78 EFLAGS: 00000207 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000004e

RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f996f53ecdc RCX: 00007f996f64b9f9

RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000003

RBP: 00007f996f53dea0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000

R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000207 R12: ffffffffffffff88

R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007ffc8cd9a500 R15: 00007f996f51e000

</TASK>

Allocated by task 408:

kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40

kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30

__kasan_slab_alloc+0x6e/0x70

kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x117/0x3d0

mempool_alloc_noprof+0xf2/0x2c0

cifs_buf_get+0x36/0x80 [cifs]

allocate_buffers+0x1d2/0x330 [cifs]

cifs_demultiplex_thread+0x22b/0x2690 [cifs]

kthread+0x394/0x720

ret_from_fork+0x34/0x70

ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

Freed by task 342979:

kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40

kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30

kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60

__kasan_slab_free+0x37/0x50

kmem_cache_free+0x2b8/0x500

cifs_buf_release+0x3c/0x70 [cifs]

cifs_readdir+0x1c97/0x3190 [cifs]

iterate_dir+0x1a1/0x520

__x64_sys_getdents64+0x134/0x220

do_syscall_64+0x4b/0x110

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880099b8000

which belongs to the cache cifs_request of size 16588

The buggy address is located 412 bytes inside of

freed 16588-byte region [ffff8880099b8000, ffff8880099bc0cc)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:

page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x99b8

head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0

anon flags: 0x80000000000040(head|node=0|zone=1)

page_type: f5(slab)

raw: 0080000000000040 ffff888001e03400 0000000000000000 dead000000000001

raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000010001 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000

head: 0080000000000040 ffff888001e03400 0000000000000000 dead000000000001

head: 0000000000000000 0000000000010001 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000

head: 0080000000000003 ffffea0000266e01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff

head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000008

page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

Memory state around the buggy address:

ffff8880099b8080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb

ffff8880099b8100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb

>ffff8880099b8180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb

^

ffff8880099b8200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb

ffff8880099b8280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb

==================================================================

POC is available in the link [1].

The problem triggering process is as follows:

Process 1 Process 2

-----------------------------------

---truncated---

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-38051 is classified as CWE-416: Use After Free. Memory is used after being released, so its contents may already belong to something else.

Affected software

CVE-2025-38051 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • debian-linux
  • kernel (from 6.13.0 up to 6.14.9)
  • linux-kernel

Timeline and source

Published on 18 June 2025 and last revised on 30 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org
git.kernel.org
git.kernel.org
git.kernel.org
git.kernel.org
git.kernel.org
git.kernel.org
git.kernel.org
lists.debian.org
lists.debian.org

CVE-2025-38051 on other distributions

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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-416
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-06-18
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-30

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux
kernel 6.13.0 6.14.9
linux-kernel

References

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