CVE-2025-39720 (GCVE-0-2025-39720)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-05 17:21
Modified
2026-08-05 12:04
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix refcount leak causing resource not released When ksmbd_conn_releasing(opinfo->conn) returns true,the refcount was not decremented properly, causing a refcount leak that prevents the count from reaching zero and the memory from being released.
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Linux Linux Version: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf
Version: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf
Version: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf
Version: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf
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